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...faulty electronics, management has struck an agreement with key suppliers such as Bosch not to blame each other. In their self-critical moments, executives say they ramped up production of the E-Class too quickly. before it was ready, and that they were overstretched by the introduction of a welter of new models...
Life as theater, even as a theater of war, is a notion that emerges unexpectedly from many of these pictures, where the war sometimes seems a bizarre welter of chaos and formality, anarchy and self-conscious ceremony. The accumulated effect is not to mock human behavior as in-authentic but to acknowledge a yearning for dignity and order. Mydans' work springs from that same benign instinct. Through decades when each year put forward new varieties of suffering, he recorded the world's dislocations and helped to shape the heart's reply. --By Richard Lacayo
...second game started close as well with the teams trading points. NJIT, led by freshman Eduardo Welter and senior Matt Thorkildsen, managed to keep within reach until the Crimson opened up a 24-19 lead on a 5-0 spurt, forcing a Highlander timeout...
...criticism of University President Lawrence H. Summers within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Lawyers, perhaps, are constitutionally inclined to see multiple sides of a story where some see only one. Faculty complain that they have been left out of Allston planning, but many have participated in a welter of committees, and on a task of that complexity, a considerable amount of centralized decisionmaking is required. (I do not know if there was more faculty discussion of Allston before Summers’ arrival, but there surely was not much progress.) The undergraduate curriculum, desperately overdue for an overhaul, finally...
...indications of a turnaround. Although revenues from horse racing dropped 9% last season, the club's total sales rose 13.5%, to $11.3 billion?the first increase since 2000. Yet even as the club struggles to overcome illegal bookies, powerful new competitors are springing up. In nearby Macau, a welter of Las Vegas-style casinos are scheduled to open in the next few years, giving Hong Kongers more ways to imperil their paychecks. The number of tourists visiting Macau jumped 53% in the first half of the year. It's enough to make a punter long for the good old days...