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Failure for General Motors would be a national disaster, as Bill Saporito points out [Nov. 24]. What should GM do in the meantime? Get out and sell its vehicles. I have rented GM compact cars for the past 20 years and find them to be of excellent quality. GM salespeople need to get out of their cushy showrooms and offer to take people out for a demo ride and lunch at the deli. The company could win by a landslide. Perry Munson, GROSSE POINTE, MICH...
...Everyone played with a lot of heart and we stayed compact,” Millock said. “Coach Clark gave us a really good game plan and we stuck to the plan—it was spot...
...other hand, a renewed Western focus on creating a more viable Afghan government as the anchor for its counterinsurgency strategy may yet see other candidates step forward to challenge Karzai. But more important than the election will be the efforts, already underway, to negotiate a new political compact with more moderate elements of the Taliban on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. An election aimed at reaffirming the mandate of an increasingly unpopular President may prove to be more of a hindrance than a help in finding a political solution to the seemingly intractable Taliban insurgency...
...movie isn't as deft or compact as Zucker's YouTube video this summer of a man being strangled by the pump at a gas station, but it has its funny parts. One is the running gag that Malone isn't a "real" moviemaker because he does documentaries. "Nobody likes documentaries," somebody says. "But many people find them restful." As it happens, Fahrenheit 9/11 earned more at the domestic box office than any movie David Zucker has directed. And though Grandpa Nielsen's closing argument is that "It turned out that people actually wanted to see movies that show...
...until two weeks ago that Justine S. Chow ’10, a long-time user of compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) bulbs, learned that there were specific procedures for the proper use and disposal of the much-touted alternative to incandescents...