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...point the finger just at management. Detroit's players have their fair share of responsibility for the Lions' failures. Richard "Batman" Wood, a linebacker on the 1976 Buccaneers team that finished 0-14 (he used to wear Batman logos on his arm pads and socks), says he wouldn't wish the ignominy of a winless season on any other player. Still, he's angry at the Lions. "In today's game, with free agency and everything else, don't tell me you can't win one game," says Wood, who was an assistant defensive coach for the Bucs...
Cerberus LLC, the once powerful private equity firm, swept into Detroit in the autumn of 2006 to acquire a 51% stake in GMAC, General Motors' financial arm, and less than a year later it drove off with Chrysler, described at the time as the "capstone" of Cerberus' industrial empire. Never mind that the seller, Daimler, was only too happy to get rid of the auto company...
...scientist of the highest caliber, but someone who has been steeped in policy," wrote Bart Gordon, the Democratic Tennessee representative who chairs the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology, in an e-mail. "This is a strong message that science will no longer be kept at an arm's length in the White House...
...when she won the post; it didn't help matters that she had to return $25,000 in campaign donations from what turned out to be a bigoted rock band, though she did wisely donate the cash to anti-hate groups. "He really did go out and put the arm on people to raise money," says Redfield, who knew and briefly worked with Michael Madigan in the 1970s...
...scientist of the highest caliber, but someone who has been steeped in policy," wrote Bart Gordon, the democratic Tennessee representative who chairs the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology, in an e-mail. "This is a strong message that science will no longer be kept at an arm's length in the White House...