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...company profitable. Many observers - especially unions - expected similar tough love in early February, when Ghosn unveiled his ambitious four-year business plan for Renault, which has had an increasingly close joint partnership with Nissan since 1999. But so far, Ghosn's quality-enhancing, production-boosting, profit-focused project has avoided layoffs. "Renault is not in the same critical situation Nissan was, so the methods we're using to improve things are different," says Ghosn during an interview at Renault's Boulogne-Billancourt headquarters on the southwestern edge of Paris. "We're confident this plan will be successful...
...Will Be Interim Chief,” news, Feb. 22) indicates to me that Harvard has become a place where vigorous debate, examination of unpopular ideas, and critical thinking are valued less than political correctness, where courageous leadership is not to be preferred over extreme caution to avoid offending anyone. So be it. Henceforth, when the alumni fund solicitors call, I shall not donate so much as a penny to this shallow institution...
...Institute and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, endeavors which placed Harvard in the center of the life sciences. Inevitably, allocating resources to the life sciences meant conflict as other areas got less—or at least smaller increases in their budgets—but the only way to avoid conflict of this type is to have leaders whose choices and budgets are guided by more than mere incrementalism. That is a sure path towards mediocrity...
...sciences and improving undergraduate life. Summers coupled that vision with an increasing understanding of community-building. He championed new housing for graduate students so that Allston would thrive as a mixed-use scholarly environment. He endorsed environmental sustainability. He built a strong relationship with Boston Mayor Thomas Menino to avoid the meltdown of town-gown relations that stopped us in Cambridge. Summers encouraged those involved in discussing Allston to push their creativity to its limit. He was a superb leader of the Allston planning process...
...penguins mating and dying is enough to make you eat veal, stop cutting the rings on your soda can packaging, and dump oil into the Caspian sea. I’m an unwilling convert, but perhaps with a cheap handle of rum and a bottle of Coke, you can avoid my crisis of confidence. TAKE A SHOT… 1. Whenever the cameraman zooms in dramatically on a penguin’s feet. Three shots if the close-up lasts for 30 seconds or more. 2. Whenever anyone watching makes an “aww” noise. Two shots...