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...Huber, like many of his compatriots, doesn't seem to give a damn about that, although he acknowledges that the U.S. government does. Washington should do more, since the U.S. is responsible for some 25% of the world's fossil-fuel consumption and the corresponding pollution. Karl M. Ortner Vienna In his viewpoint "Oil Is Here To Stay," Peter Huber argues that sufficient supplies of oil exist to quench our thirst indefinitely and that we merely need the political will to extract them. His assessment implies that we should continue our addiction to using fossil fuels without fear of consequence...
...DIED. PETER DRUCKER, 95, pioneering consultant who argued that companies should free workers to reach management objectives; in Claremont, California. Born in Vienna, Drucker fled to London in 1933 after the Nazis banned one of his essays. Four years later he migrated to the U.S., where he published his 1939 book on the rise of authoritarianism, The End of Economic Man. It was his classic 1946 study of General Motors, The Concept of the Corporation, that launched his career as a business guru. Drucker went on to write more than 30 books advocating the empowerment of employees while questioning unbridled...
...VIENNA STEIRERECK Zagat's 2006 Europe's Top Restaurants, left, which surveys 27 major cities and debuts this week, describes chef Heinz Reitbauer's "exquisite" Austrian eatery as one of the best in all of Europe...
...Standing in his doorway, smiling, he opened the envelope a courier handed to him. Then he froze, and the color drained from his face. It was over: after two years overseas, the former New York City hedge-fund operator had been located. Badian slammed the door of his posh Vienna, Austria, apartment in the heart of the city's embassy quarter--but not before being officially served with a civil lawsuit linking him to the beleaguered U.S. commodities firm Refco and tying him and Refco to a type of fraud that some argue has destroyed thousands of companies and bilked...
...their identities, no matter the price. Time is needed to develop better understanding of multiculturalism, from the new German Chancellor to influential Vatican leaders who by backing discrimination turn their backs on the very Holy Texts they revere. Time is needed to see that as of today, the Vienna Gates still face east. If we Europeans cannot deal with a representative Muslim Turkey within Europe, we don’t deserve them in our Union. Pierpaolo Barbieri ’09 lives in Thayer Hall...