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...this year; Britain's BAE is currently selling its 20% stake in Airbus to EADS.) Giovanni Federico, a professor at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, says, "Because of the politics, Airbus certainly won't be able to carry out the sort of cost-cutting that a U.S. firm would now do." Indeed, archrival Boeing has cut more than 50,000 jobs over the past eight years. The 555-seat, double-decker A380 is not just another airplane. It is one of those bet-the-company ventures, so beloved by the airline industry, which either succeed spectacularly...
...power isn't big news, then you may have forgotten the pure zeal of Gingrich's original revolutionaries. They swept into Washington on the single promise that they would change Capitol Hill. And for a time, they did. Vowing to finish what Ronald Reagan had started, they stood firm on the three principles that defined conservatism: fiscal responsibility, national security and moral values. Reagan, who had a few scandals in his day, didn't always follow his own rules. But his doctrine turned out to be a good set of talking points for winning elections in a closely divided country...
...classroom. One professor I took a class with last semester offered office hours, but had them at 9 a.m., required an appointment to be made with a secretary, and then proceeded to hold them in a building that no one had heard of. Another required her students to ask firm questions to which she would give terse replies, making them so uncomfortable that few would return. Harvard College—in the best formulation I’ve heard—promulgates a Japanese-style education, where the professoriate pretend to teach, the students pretend to learn, and everyone...
...starting, hard working leaders who can think on their feet with the big boys of Harvard recruiting. And TFA, by way of the districts they teach in, offers as little as $25,000 in compensation per year, a mere quarter of what a first-year analyst at a top firm can expect...
...Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and in two hours I'm going to have a telephone discussion with the Japanese Foreign Minister. North Korea must stop these kinds of negative announcements, and they should stop if they have any plans [to actually conduct a nuclear test]. They have made a firm commitment to a denuclearization of the Korean peninsula contained in the joint statement adopted in September last year. This is a serous breach of that commitment, to the whole Korean nation - both North and South- and the whole international community. We will take necessary diplomatic measures, as much...