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...INDICATORS red cadillac Detroit 's Big Three automakers - General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler - reached trade agreements with China that will allow the export of thousands of vehicles over the next two years to the world's fastest-growing car market Strike Up The Broadband T-Online, Europe 's largest Internet service provider, posted a quarterly net profit of -3 million - the first since it floated in April 2000 - thanks to a rapid increase in the number of its broadband subscribers. Candid Camera Phones South Korea 's government called on cell-phone manufacturers to fit picture phones with an audible beep...
This year VH1 has created a new holiday variety show with rocker/rapper Kid Rock that will feature a Christmas dinner “Detroit Style” with Rock’s mother and celebrity special guests. And that’s only the tip of the icicle. For office party background carols one can choose American Idol finalists singing the holiday classics, or R&B diva Ashanti belting out a few originals on her soon-to-be-released holiday album. Out of Nashville Kenny Chesney has released his album “All I Want for Christmas...
Other groups to take T.T.’s stage before making it big include Jane’s Addiction and the Smashing Pumpkins. Some more recent performers include …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, the Black Keys, the Detroit Cobras, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Chicks on Speed...
...wife Ellen believed was far more than they needed for retirement. His first act, which received national attention, was to distribute $128 million to his employees; about 80 became instant millionaires. Then Thompson decided to donate most of the rest of his money to public education, preferably in Detroit. After doing some research, he offered $200 million to build 15 small, independent public high schools in the inner city. A few weeks ago, Thompson withdrew his offer after the Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) led a furious, and scurrilous, campaign against his generosity. The philanthropist is in seclusion now--friends...
Thompson's research led him to Doug Ross, founder of University Preparatory Academy in Detroit. Ross is a prominent New Democrat policy wonk who served in Bill Clinton's Labor Department, then went home to Michigan and ran unsuccessfully for Governor in 1998. "I learned during the campaign there was one overpowering issue for inner-city parents: to get their kids a college education," Ross told me. "I was tired of theoretical policy junk; I wanted to do something that really mattered. It was clear that urban kids were not responding to the industrial-age assembly-line education model...