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The to-do list presented to GM by the President's auto task force is stark and steep: shrink labor costs, including retiree health-care expenses; slash debt; kill or sell low-performing brands; and reduce the number of models for sale and the number of dealers selling them. Should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Detroit Be Retooled — Before It's Too Late? | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

A dramatic rise in applications for jobs at the Central Intelligence Agency—which traditionally recruits heavily from the College—has seen no such spike from Harvard undergraduates. The Agency has for many years been actively using Harvard, as well as other colleges and universities nationwide, as...

Author: By Margherita Pignatelli, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard CIA App Numbers Steady | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

Notre Dame provided the site several years ago for New York Governor Mario Cuomo to offer his infamous rationalization that, as a Catholic, he was personally opposed to abortion, but, as a public figure, he should not necessarily refuse to support it. Such a defense, mounted by every progressive Catholic...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: Obama and the Fightin’ Irish | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

The Kameng is also territory of the Nishi. Fierce forest dwellers, the Nishi wear a bird-beak hat (a fashion trend that has driven the Great Indian Hornbill to near extinction in Arunachal), carry a long sword and wear a stuffed rodent around the neck to ward off evil jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White-Water Rafting Among Headhunters | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

There are conflicting reports as to how many Sahwa have been absorbed into the Iraqi security forces. Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul-Karim Khalaf says 13,000 have been trained and placed in local police units. Major General Mike Ferriter, deputy operations commander of the U.S.-led forces, says the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al-Qaeda Infiltrating Pro-U.S. Militias in Iraq, Sources Say | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

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