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...years later--the first family member to run the outfit in 19 years--plenty of critics said that any guy named Ford, especially a granola-crunching one, was a bad choice for the job. A lot of people still think so. "Any insider is the wrong person to fix a Ford or a GM," argues a hedge-fund executive who is shorting Ford stock. "Insiders have too much of a connection to the status quo and the legacy of the company to make the tough decisions that are needed." Executives humored him but cringed when he announced he wanted...
Ford Motor's efforts to cut costs, go green and produce more exciting cars can already be found in some of its 2007 models. But by one measure, Ford is still heading in the wrong direction. Last week Moody's downgraded Ford's debt to a lower "junk" rating, saying it's unlikely the company will be willing to stop the slide in market share. Still, says childhood friend Mark Higbie: "Bill has picked his horse, and he's going to ride it until it crosses the finish line...
Enter Dr. Michael Barrett, 57, of Temple University in Philadelphia. A cardiologist by training, Barrett started playing with his new CD burner a few years ago and got to thinking that maybe the way medical schools teach their students to use the stethoscope is all wrong. Typically, he says, students attend a basic lecture and listen to a couple of practice recordings, then they're on their own. The cardiologist suspected that they needed more repetition for their brains to assimilate the patterns dependably...
It’s almost a cliché. Political commentators and elected officials from both sides of the political spectrum agree: the American military gets its recruits from America’s poor. There’s just one problem. They’re all wrong. Kinda.In my last column, I mentioned in passing that the American military tends to be made up of America’s most disadvantaged citizens. The image of the military as the last refuge of the poor has gotten a lot of play since the start of the Iraq war. It?...
...general in the Reagan administration. While in that post, Fried briefly served as Alito’s boss. In his testimony, Fried said that he did not believe Alito would launch a frontal assault on Roe v. Wade. But, he twice repeated, “I could be quite wrong...