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...auto companies then did their part, with Chrysler recently announcing it would shut down operations for a full month, raising the threat of catastrophic liquidation if someone in Washington didn't cough up some money. Bush's hand was forced. In theory, the job of saving the car companies would have gone to the Commerce Department, but its chief, Carlos Gutierrez, doesn't have access to the kind of money Detroit needs, so Bush gave the job to Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson...
...starting his second game in a row as classmate Keith Wright sits out due to an illness—led the long-distance charge, making 7-of-9 three-point attempts on his way to 23 points, a game high and a new career mark. His hot hand did not see many minutes in the second half due to foul trouble—he ended up fouling out with four minutes left in the game—but the Crimson shot well enough without him. The team’s 78 percent mark from downtown in the second half...
...From the beginning of the massacre, Indians in India and abroad never doubted Pakistan's hand in the ghastly attacks. President Richard Nixon's famous "tilt" toward Pakistan, decades of American support for Pakistan's military dictators and America's turning a blind eye to Pakistan's involvement in a long series of terrorist attacks against India have borne fruit in the form of worldwide Islamist terrorism. These dreadful attacks will continue unless international pressure is brought to bear on Pakistan's government to bring its military under control. Chuncha Mel Ramakrishna, Cherry Hill, New Jersey...
...problem: Mugabe - a corrupt and possibly mentally unstable power freak. My appeal to the world is to get into Zimbabwe now and help put this country and its struggling citizens on the road to recovery. World leaders should not wait for 2009 just because the festive season is at hand. There are many other crisis areas in the world, but someone must take seriously the remark made by Jimmy Carter: The crisis is much worse than we ever imagined. Theo Vermaak, WITBANK, SOUTH AFRICA...
...interested in the job, and why Obama was so willing to hand it to him, is something of a puzzler ... The Interior secretary has almost no national profile and the position is hardly one that an ambitious politician would aspire to. It's the perfect job for a politician who wants to live comfortably - and wouldn't mind being forgotten by the general public." -New York Observer...