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...German government officials were left in the dark over GM's intentions until the very last minute. One government official said he had "no idea" what GM had decided, and union leaders were still claiming GM wanted to keep Opel and Vauxhall. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GM Accepts Canadian-Russian Bid for Opel | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

...meantime, the European Union has started hearings of its own to look into the digital future of the book. Just before they started in Brussels on Monday, Google suddenly made some conciliatory gestures towards its European critics. "Books that are commercially available in Europe will be treated as commercially available under the Settlement," the Internet giant said in letters sent to various European publishers' associations. In other words: If a book is out of print in the U.S., but still for sale in Europe, Google would not consider it out of print, and therefore cannot sell it digitally in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: European Publishers Fight Against Google Books | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...financial rescue efforts, faced a raft of questions about the effectiveness and the use of those funds. Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard professor and chairperson of the panel, said the average American has seen little or no benefit from the TARP spending. Damon Silvers, associate counsel for the AFL-CIO union, questioned whether TARP had really restored some of its biggest recipients, namely Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo, to health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geithner Defends First Year Of TARP | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...media workshop two weeks ago. Rich countries, or Annex-I nations of the Kyoto Protocol, were supposed to cut emissions 5.1% over 1990 levels by 2008-12, she explains. But barring the economies in transition (like those of Eastern Europe, whose economies collapsed following the breakup of the Soviet Union), developed countries' emissions actually increased 14.5% during this period. "The fact is, even if India stopped breathing today, the West would have to undertake cuts at home to save the world from an ecological catastrophe," says Narain. More crucially, she adds, "there is no serious effort towards lifestyle changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind India's Intransigence on Climate-Change Talks | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...months after the University implemented sweeping workforce reductions, union officials remain optimistic that the over 100 laid-off staffers in the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers will be placed into open job positions elsewhere within the University. “Our official view at this point is, ‘So far, so good.’ Or maybe even a little better,” said HUCTW director Bill Jaeger. “The human resources community at the University is more aware than it’s ever been, and more thoughtful than we?...

Author: By Esther I. Yi and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Laid-off Staffers Find Harvard Jobs | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

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