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...Chrysler has introduced only one new vehicle this fall, the Ram heavy truck, and the next new vehicle, the redesigned 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee, won't appear until next spring. Facing a dearth of new products, Chrysler hands blame the company's previous owner, Cerberus Capital Management LLC, for slashing the product development budget in a failed bid to reach profitability. But it's more than just a lack of new vehicles plaguing the automaker; it's also the vehicles it has in hand. "Chrysler continues to struggle," Consumer Reports said earlier this month. "More than one third of Chrysler...
Instead, you see the reanimation of various well-known images - like Earhart standing on the wing of her plane - by an actress giving a very studied and careful but wooden performance. Screenwriters Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan (Gorillas in the Mist) appear to have gobbled up every quotable line ever attributed to Earhart and then regurgitated it into a script. The results may be mostly accurate (both East to the Dawn, Susan Butler's 1997 biography, and Mary S. Lovell's earlier The Sound of Wings are credited as the basis for the screenplay), but they veer between...
...estimated 15% of the neighborhood's homes are foreclosed, a result of the national real estate crisis, which has hit Detroit particularly hard. Vacant homes are an open invitation to burglars and vandals. Neighbors install motion sensors and curtains in them and maintain the lawns to make the properties appear occupied...
VERONICA RODRIGUEZ, of Jackson, Miss., referring to her 17-year-old daughter Ceara Sturgis, whose high school will not allow her graduation picture to appear in its yearbook because she was photographed wearing a tuxedo...
...Still, the issue doesn't appear to have damaged Schumer's standing in the party; many observers believe he would ultimately like to become majority leader. Part of his appeal is his uncanny sense of the political winds. Schumer crafted his compromise version of the public plan expressly to appeal to moderates, mainly by including a provision allowing individual states to opt out. His sales pitch is three-pronged. First, he says, studies have shown that government competition is the most effective means of keeping down costs. Second, polls show that most Americans want a public option; conveniently some have...