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Sugarman had only one concern about filming during a Michigan winter: snow. Even on that front, however, the state has cooperated; after three months of record-high snowfall, the eight weeks of production were precipitation-free. Still, on a frigid first day of spring, it's not hard to spot the Los Angeles - based crew members working the shoot on these Detroit streets. They're the ones huddled in their matching parkas, shivering...
...They put us in this box, and we'll race like this until we kill somebody, and then they'll change it.' CARL EDWARDS, race-car driver, criticizing NASCAR for the design of the Talladega Superspeedway, after his car wrecked during the last lap of the Sprint Cup, injuring eight...
Last week, the Durban Review Conference, also known as the World Conference Against Racism or Durban II, was convened in Geneva. The conference was the sequel to the 2001 meeting held in Durban, South Africa, which originally aimed to eliminate racism and xenophobia. Eight years ago, the proceedings rapidly descended into a “hate fest” as Muslim-majority states hijacked the stage as an opportunity to berate Israel and the West. While Durban II was not the same sort of vitriolic, one-sided attack that many had expected, it was nonetheless far from constructive. As such...
...After narrowly losing Philadelphia's mayoral election 1967 to a Pittsburgh millionaire, Specter continued to work as Philadelphia's District Attorney for eight years, overseeing 250,000 cases. In 1969, he hired two rival gang leaders as consultants to address the city's rising violence and the following year charged two white policemen with aggravated assault and battery in the shooting death of a black man - moves that won both derision and praise...
...Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1980 after beating eight other candidates for the Republican nomination, despite a lack of support from Pennsylvania's governor or either senator. He once touted his legislative interests as the "big four" - kids, sex, drugs, and violence - and earned a reputation as a a RINO (Republican In Name Only) by bucking the party line: he's pro-choice, pro-stem cell research and against school prayer...