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...personal favorite: it's gotten so bad that during last Sunday's game against the Saints, Ford Field fans started chanting "We want Joey" at New Orleans third-string quarterback Joey Harrington, who frustrated hoards of Lions faithful during his four-year train wreck as Detroit's starter from 2002 to 2005. Now even Detroit's former whipping boy can poke fun at his ex-team. "It's weird to think I was here in the heyday," deadpanned Harrington, who finished with a sickly 18-37 record as the Lions' quarterback. (Read TIME's top 10 sports moments...
...Bush - who has always had a keen sense of political reality, whatever his other shortcomings - is the self-image of a President stepping before the podium in his last days to announce a stopgap rescue for two giant, collapsing pillars of American industry. The auto companies may have gotten their shot at a rebound today, but Bush's place in history got at best a dead-cat bounce...
...Bailing Out the Big Three I am unmoved by the plight of the Big Three automakers [Dec. 15]. For decades, Ford, General Motors and Chrysler fiercely opposed corporate restructuring and green technology while egregiously mismanaging their businesses. The only reason they've recently gotten religion is that they're teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. Mark Stuart Ellison, Brooklyn, New York...
...attention early on, I would have gotten tired of the whole circus. I think I would have gotten disenchanted and probably quit...
With regard to TIME's COVER story, I have no sympathy for the Big Three automakers [Dec. 15]. For decades, Ford, General Motors and Chrysler fiercely opposed corporate restructuring and green technology while egregiously mismanaging their businesses. The only reason they've recently gotten religion is that they're teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. Mark Stuart Ellison, BROOKLYN...