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...that prompted Granholm, a Democrat, to seize control of Detroit's public schools in the fall of 2008 and then look for someone to fix them. After a wide search, she settled on Bobb, who had a reputation for restoring fiscal sanity to city governments - including managing public-school-system budgets. When Bobb arrived last spring, here's what he found: Contracts had been stuffed in office drawers. The district couldn't afford new books. Gas was siphoned between buses. The district had to borrow money to pay its employees. There wasn't even a chief financial officer managing...
...failure save Detroit? That's one of the fundamental questions Paul Ingrassia, a Pulitzer Prize--winning former Detroit bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, explores in his treatise on U.S. carmakers' rise, fall and hoped-for resurrection. It was quite a fall. Throughout much of the 20th century, companies like Ford helped build the American middle class. For part of the 1990s, Detroit trounced its Japanese rivals in the SUV business. But then U.S. automakers, essentially, got lazy. Their war with the auto unions didn't help. Nor did the rise of the likes of Toyota. By the autumn...
...moving water. So it freezes incrementally and not at all consistently. The ice may be thick in some places and not as thick in others. And it can change rapidly (during the day and overnight). So just because some idiot made it across, leaving his footprints, you might easily fall through following the same path a few hours or a day later...
...fall through the ice, you will die. The current will suck you under. And the extremely cold water will quickly immobilize you physically (and mentally) such that it is nearly impossible to pull yourself up and out even if you manage to not get sucked under right away...
Casey arrived at Lavietes Pavilion this fall surrounded by high expectations—he was picked by numerous media outlets to haul in Ivy Rookie of the Year honors—and a tremendous amount of hype...