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...light vehicles. Three years ago, that would have been its take for the July 4th "cash back" weekend. Ford (F) moved 96,044 units, off 48% from the same month last year. As usual, the Ford PR department did what it could to misdirect and dissemble. Early in its statement about last month's sales, Ford pressed the case for how fabulous it new products are. The most important announcement the company thought it was making was that Ford will introduce the new Fusion model during American Idol. It tells Ford's shareholders how out of touch the company...
...apply to those who are hired while holding a student visa but later apply for an H-1B, Casey said, an interpretation Harvard officials are lobbying the Department of Labor to recommend. Kurt Piemonte, an associate director of career services at the Business School, wrote in an e-mailed statement that companies looking to pick up their newest recruits are “hopeful” that the statute will be interpreted in their favor, but remain in a state of limbo for the time being. “TARP recipient employers are rightly concerned that this new language...
...Joined ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown in 2003 but resigned from his position after making a controversial statement that the media only liked Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb because he was black. (Read TIME's 2003 article about his resignation...
...Doctor Death" Kevorkian. But the issue of whether human beings - and more pointedly, doctors - have the right to help others die has been in the public discourse since before the birth of Christ. The Hippocratic Oath, which scholars estimate was written in the fourth century B.C., includes the unambiguous statement: I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan. (The oath, which most modern doctors do not take, also includes a promise not to perform abortions.) (See the Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs...
...face of it, the statement makes no sense. The atrocities in Darfur began long after al-Bashir took power and supposedly turned "moderate and civilized." Meanwhile, amid fears of a violent reaction should al-Bashir be charged, other government officials have promised that there will be no retaliation against aid workers or U.N. peacekeepers stationed in Darfur - or the hordes of journalists who have flown to Khartoum in anticipation of the announcement...