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...rope, and has filed for bankruptcy - a course confirmed by President Obama at a Thursday press conference. The reason for the fast fall into Chapter 11 is that some of Chrysler's debt holders refused to take the cash settlement offer put together by Steve Rattner and the Automotive Task Force, the terms of which they found rather harsh...
...have no doubt about that. I think when women have equal qualifications, experience, capacities, they bring to the task a certain dimension that may be missing in men--a sensitivity to humankind. Maybe it comes from being a mother...
...rosters is Clifton Dawson ’07, who was released by the Colts in March after being shuffled between Indianapolis and the Bengals.So as Pizzotti and Bryant embark on the road from the Ivy League to the NFL, they should know that the journey is no easy task. There is a long trail of Ivy grads who couldn’t make the cut. But that’s not to say that it can’t be done.—Staff writer Dixon McPhillips can be reached at fmcphill@fas.harvard.edu...
...President Obama deploys his many czars and task forces, he should remember that no amount of IQ can cure the human condition. Like Republicans, Democrats are prone to overemphasize their favorite facts and theories, to gloss over contradictory data, to skew their analysis to match their values. That doesn't make them dumb people or bad people. It just makes them people...
Torture, the economic collapse, the controversial firing of eight U.S. federal prosecutors, Vice President Dick Cheney's secret energy task force: there's no shortage of reasons to be scrutinizing the Bush Administration these days, and Congress is on the case on most of them. But from the Obama Administration's point of view, there are equally compelling reasons not to get distracted by public trials that do little to further the President's ambitious agenda of health care reform, the re-regulation of Wall St. and a bill to slow global warming, not to mention dealing with the ongoing...