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America's leading motorcycle manufacturer is enduring its bleakest period since the 1980s, when it nearly went bankrupt. "Clearly it's a challenging environment, and we're doing all the right things in this environment to position our premium brand in this marketplace to make sure we're even stronger when we're out of this cycle," says Tom Bergmann, Harley-Davidson's chief financial officer...
...Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah, called Gomorra in Italy and based on the best-selling exposé by Roberto Saviano, is probably the bleakest, least sentimental study of the Mafia in Italian or American film history. In its depiction of the Camorra crime family, there are no good guys, no crusading cops, no mama pleading with her son to stay out of the rackets. There's also no Mr. Big, Dr. No or Don Corleone stroking a house cat and intoning gritty or pearly aphorisms. The movie stays at street level, showing the lower- and middle-rung employees enmeshed...
...developments will further complicate matters for many companies struggling to survive in what is arguably the bleakest economic and financial crisis since the Depression. The true scope of the market's toll on pension plans will become apparent in the coming weeks, when companies release fourth-quarter and year-end earnings statements. In conference calls to investors and analysts, top corporate executives are likely to explain how they plan to handle the loss. Many will probably reduce sharply or even eliminate new benefits packages, cut wages and resort to more job cuts to recover the loss. It will also likely...
...advertisements promoting Republican candidates on black-oriented television and radio stations, locally and nationally. She also runs the Pennsylvania New Majority Council, which aims to boost GOP support among people of color. During Tom Ridge's 1994 Pennsylvania gubernatorial campaign, Amoore recalls, she took him to some of the bleakest areas of north Philadelphia. "This is what our candidates need to see - how people are living, and how they can help those people," she says. Amoore believes Ridge's visit helped him win a significant share of black votes in Philadelphia...
Meanwhile, Barbara Gray, 65, a retiree who is also from Gary, said she voted for Obama partly because she hoped he would take interest in improving conditions in urban areas - like Obama's adopted hometown neighborhood, Hyde Park, a leafy Chicago enclave surrounded by some of the city's bleakest communities. She said Obama may be the first President with a firsthand understanding of life in neighborhoods like hers. Gray said she wants the basics: cracked sidewalks repaved, enough funding so that largely black and Latino urban public schools can compete with the predominately white schools in affluent suburbs. "Just...