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...Mitt Romney who gave his acceptance speech at the Embassy Suites in Southfield, Mich. - an upscale Detroit suburb - had a hair out of place. Maybe more than one. He was in his shirtsleeves. He was, as a spokesman said, "the stripped-down, acoustic Romney - Romney unplugged." The clunky chimera candidate who tried so hard to prove his conservative credentials had become a model of simplicity with one major theme: He was a successful "can-do CEO," in the words of state G.O.P. chairman Saul Anuzis, "who knows how to get jobs back...
Quebec Premier Jean Charest recently announced a $620 million aid package to help his French-speaking province's ailing manufacturers and has urged the federal government to follow his lead. In the meantime, Mayor Eddie Francis of Windsor, Ont., near Detroit, is trying to cope with an 8.6% unemployment rate in a town known as the automotive capital of Canada. "It's a challenge and we're going to have to get through it," he says. The strong loonie may be great for cross-border shopping excursions, but it's of little help to anyone without a paycheck...
There was a downside, of course. Across from Detroit in Windsor, Ont. - at Canada's busiest border crossing - the plumped-up loonie did not bring such good humor. Windsor is one of the few urban centers in Canada - almost all of them in Ontario - where unemployment has risen since 2002. Gurmit Singh Bains drives his taxi along the riverside. "It's like a ghost town," he says. "The whole economy is down: hotels, restaurants, everything." The waterfront DaimlerChrysler Canada headquarters opened to much fanfare there in 2002, when the city's auto-manufacturing industry was red-hot. Today, the building...
...Chair Ingrid Monson, who also teaches Literature and Arts B-82. “We always coordinate with the OFA [Office for the Arts at Harvard], who wanted her to do a Learning from Performers event.” Renowned trumpeter Marcus Belgrave mentored Allen in her hometown of Detroit; since then, she has played and recorded with a seemingly endless list of notable and diverse musicians—Bill Cosby, Steve Coleman, Betty Carter, Ravi Coltrane, and Marianne Faithfull, to name but a few. Allen has also put out a dozen albums. Most recently, the Walt Whitman Arts Center...
...women joined hands, swayed their hips, spun under each other’s arms. They called it Detroit Ballroom...