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...looking arrangement: The government would put up the money. The UAW's Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) - a trust set up at Chrysler and other U.S. carmakers to shift retiree health-care obligations off company books - would own a majority of the shares. Fiat would run the place. And some sort of entity called Chrysler would survive. Despite the protests of some bondholders, the deal was sent to receive the blessing of a bankruptcy judge...
...closely followed the well-publicized atheist efforts in Britain (which, thanks to the fervor of the British press, received global coverage). "Why don't we try something like that?" one student asked at a meeting. They bounced around ideas and came up with a campaign to raise money to place ads on buses in the handful of Indiana cities with populations over 50,000. But that was turned down by the public transportation system in Bloomington (pop. 72,254). The local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has since filed a lawsuit on First Amendment grounds. Indianapolis' public transportation...
...truth, Gates has been bulletproof ever since George W. Bush lured him from Texas A&M University to replace the disastrous Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense. His mission, Gates said, was "to put Iraq in a better place," which is a spectacular understatement. Iraq was falling apart in late 2006, and Gates found the Defense Department in paralytic denial. His nonstop effort to reform the institution - abetted by military rebels who had been cast into the outer darkness by the powers that were - is a great untold story of the war on terrorism...
...manicured greenswards - many of them rose gardens in the English style - and fully deserving of its "Garden City" tagline. Edwardian punts float down the peaceful, winding river Avon, while helmeted sightseers glide past on futuristic Segway transporters. This combination of the genteel and the modern is typical of the place, which offers plenty of artistic, culinary and recreational opportunities against a panoramic backdrop of ocean, peaks and plains. "Christchurch is a beautifully green, clean, safe city," says Ellis, who appreciates that "it's 10 minutes to surf at the beach and an hour from a snowboard in the Southern Alps...
...Globe and the Associated Press report that Campbell was taking a final the day of the shooting and suggest that she lived far from the scene of the crime. In fact, Campbell lived only two entryways—about 80 feet—away from where the shooting took place. It is unclear what if any charges Smith, the other Harvard student allegedly involved in the incident, who Karp said is Copney’s longtime girlfriend, faces from the University or law enforcement. Smith could not be reached for comment Tuesday. —Staff writer Eric P. Newcomer...