Front page of the NY Times. Two articles about the changing workplace and the world of transportaion.
A Corporate Divorce on the Cheap
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/business/worldbusiness/15daimler.htm
Daimler, now free of its struggling U.S. partner, can look ahead to a promising future as a stand-alone maker of trucks and luxury cars.
By MARK LANDLER
Published: May 15, 2007
STUTTGART, Germany, May 14
Nine years after they exchanged vows at a huge, lavishly choreographed news conference in London, Daimler and Chrysler signed their divorce papers Monday at a sparsely attended briefing in an auditorium at an aging Mercedes-Benz factory here.
As bookends, the two news conferences vividly illustrated the dashed dreams of the Daimler-Chrysler marriage.
And published yesterday.
VENICE
For more than a thousand years, Venice has had gondolas but never a female gondolier. But now there is Alexandra Hai.
By Dave Yoder for The New York Times
As Alexandra Hai plies the canals, many people shout encouragement. She won the right to run a hotel gondola but not to be called a gondolier.
After a decade of struggle, Ms. Hai has won the right to be a gondolier — sort of. A court recently allowed her to paddle around the canals of Venice, but only for the residents of one of the city’s hotels.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/14/world/europe/14venice.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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