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...think the market will bottom out until the middle of next year," projects Jack Pelton, Cessna's CEO. "Then we will slowly crawl out of this predicament when corporate earnings improve in 2011." The demonization of corporate jets by Congress, prompted initially by the CEOs of the Detroit automakers, has helped kill thousands of jobs. The corporate-aviation market provided 1.2 million high-wage jobs in the U.S. before the financial crisis...
...graduated from The University of Detroit Jesuit High School, the prep school you profiled, one month before the apocalyptic riots of 1967 [Nov. 9]. I am most proud of the fact that U of D chose to stay in Detroit and not abandon it as the other Catholic schools did. My class continues to contribute to our namesake city in many ways. We have purchased two bricks on the world-class Detroit RiverWalk promenade, the only school that has done so. A few years ago, I moved back to downtown Detroit after retiring from the Los Angeles Police Department...
...accounts for his troubling condition as “a male pseudohermaphorodite—genetically male, but appearing otherwise.” He starts in Turkey: siblings Desdemona and Lefty flee that country’s conflict with Greece to start anew in America as husband and wife. In Detroit, cousins Milton and Tessie fall in love and become engaged amidst the turmoil of the Second World War. Calliope, their daughter—born and raised as a girl—learns of her Y chromosome after a tractor accident brings her to a hospital. In a moment of radical...
Throughout his tale, Cal recounts a century of American history—Ellis Island, the Great Depression, the River Rouge Ford plant, Vietnam, Detroit race riots, the desegregation of schools, Watergate, the Cold War, and the oil embargoes. In doing so, Eugenides questions what it means to be American—citizenship, attitude, and history. Despite being third generation American and despite her family having climbed the class ladder—at least achieving the financial aspect of the American Dream—Calliope feels out of place in her private preparatory all-girls school...
...Should they be exempt from the change? No, said Kenyatta. Nevertheless, a few ministers have refused to turn in their luxury wheels. "We are not schoolchildren to be given uniforms in the form of Passats," Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang said recently. (See the best cars from the 2009 Detroit Auto Show...