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...Reducing capacity could also go a long way toward solving Detroit's revenue problem. Between Detroit and the transplants, there are around 17 million units of manufacturing capacity in the U.S. In 2007 vehicle sales hit 16 million, but about 2 million of those were driven by the combination of easy credit and discount pricing. In a normal economy, the true size of the business may be closer to 15 million units. The Detroit Three simply have to generate more revenue per car and, not incidentally, a profit. Right now, the revenue gap per car is $4,000 vs. Toyota...
...images out of Mumbai since Nov. 26 - a wild-eyed gunman in cargo pants and T shirt, black smoke engulfing the grand dome of the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, a cherubic toddler robbed of his parents - the one hardest to grasp is Mumbai without people. Driving toward south Mumbai on the morning after the attacks, the city's normally teeming streets were emptied of life. In one sense, this was lovely, if disturbing: you had unimpeded views of the city's stately colonial buildings, its stone-paved avenues and the glittering sea. But this absence of humanity also revealed...
...figured there would be no hotel security or police at hand. He herded fellow guests into a secured room, but for two hours was unable to get any official information about what was happening. He and his team saved 150 people. An eyewitness who saw two gunmen walk toward Cama Hospital said that more than 30 minutes passed between the first blast he heard and the arrival of the police...
...consider these questions, it is important to hear as many voices from the Harvard community as possible. Toward that end, we are gathering input from Harvard students through discussion groups and surveys, are hearing from faculty, especially House masters, and will solicit input from our alumni and alumnae in the weeks and months to come. We welcome your thoughts and ideas, so please share them with us by e-mailing house_renewal@harvard.edu...
...Lowell called for the creation of the House system as a way to rescue American educational institutions from becoming merely “automatic brain-fattening machines” that turned out graduates with no inclination toward “hard thinking...