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...Oshawa, Ont.-based car company, which takes its marching orders from Detroit, expects to shed another 4,000 jobs with planned closures of a truck and transmission plant. This downsizing is needed to cope with overcapacity, but it's fostering bad blood between the car maker and its union. "We felt betrayed," says Chris Buckley, president of Canadian Auto Workers local 222, whose membership at GM Canada's assembly complex on Lake Ontario includes workers from the surplus truck plant. "It's never been this bad. We're on the verge of closing our doors...
...FRANCISCO Goyard's graphic Ambassade (price on request) is a men's best seller in Union Square...
Featuring a key-note address by a former CIA agent, traditional bánh-mì Vietnamese sandwiches, and a “sexual” poetry reading, the third summit for the New England Union of Vietnamese Student Associations brought together Vietnamese students from nine different schools in a two-day event hosted by the Harvard Vietnamese Association this weekend. “We tailored the entire summit program to expose students to Vietnam not only in terms of its history and culture, but also modern Vietnam in an economic and political sense,” said...
Leave Your Heart... The 100-year-old Westin St. Francis in San Francisco, originally modeled after the grand hotels of Europe, has two holiday packages. For skating buffs, $169 per night buys a room, plus ice-skate rental and entry to the skating rink on Union Square right outside the hotel's front door. For shopaholics, $234 gets visitors a room and a $100 gift certificate to Macy's nearby. The hotel is currently undergoing a $40 million renovation, which is being done floor by floor, according to the hotel rep, so as not to disturb guests. Offers are good...
...Others fear that Obama will expose the gulf between the European Union's rhetoric on foreign policy and its capability. Many member governments bridled at President George W. Bush, but his grating unilateralism gave them an alibi for inaction, says Daniel Korski, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. That excuse will no longer fly with Obama, Korski says. "Afghanistan will be viewed in Washington as a litmus test of whether Europeans should be taken seriously as strategic partners," he says. "It will be the issue that pushes them to take more responsibility for global problems...