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...They’ve got excellent players at every single position,” Leone said. “They’ve had a great start...
...will admit 17,000 Iraqi refugees this year, an increase from 14,000 in 2008. Mindful of Michigan's unemployment burden, the State Department, working with nongovernment refugee-resettlement agencies, places most of the newcomers in other states, like Arizona, Maryland and Virginia. Michigan got around 3,000 last year, and that number is expected to shrink by a third...
...once they've got their bearings, many Iraqis placed elsewhere in the country make a beeline for Detroit. Some, like the Aljanabys, hook up with relatives: in a family-oriented culture, they can depend on the kindness of distant cousins for a roof over their head, food and help in finding jobs. Since those relatives are often themselves former refugees, they empathize with the newcomers...
After spending a couple of days there, along with TIME editor Rick Stengel and TIME.com managing editor Josh Tyrangiel, we found that you could not throw a rock in Detroit without hitting a good story. In this issue, you'll read Daniel Okrent's insightful analysis of how Detroit got off track and how the hardy souls who remain are fighting for the city's future. Steven Gray profiled one of those fighters: Bing, the NBA Hall of Famer and steel entrepreneur thrust into an office once rife with corruption. Future issues of TIME will feature stories about Detroit...
...there ever been a time when you think religious people got the balance right by engaging without becoming entangled? Yes. What happened in 18th and 19th century England, with the Wesley Movement and with William Wilberforce, was ideal. Wilberforce and others formed hundreds of small societies for improving human welfare, preventing cruelty to animals, reforming poorhouses and prisons. And there were great Christian leaders in politics as well. In that period, Christians were not divided by political parties...