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...June, GM announced that it would sell or eliminate four of its brands, including Pontiac, Saab, Hummer and Saturn. "We've been very clear that those brands were going to be sold or shut down," said a GM official, who asked not to be identified. "The expectation is that if you don't sell it, you close...
...unclear whether Manny can be a king. "He is so humble," Singson says. "He's a simple person." Singson, however, may be a role model for Pacquiao. The governor amassed his fortune as a tobacco-plantation owner and travels in a private plane and in a bulletproof Hummer. He is an epitome of Philippine politics, where power grows out of barrels of patronage. Political reformers worry that that is the style Pacquiao has been learning during his decade of kingdom-building and distributing wealth to family friends and allies. Ramon Casiple, a prominent political analyst and reform advocate, says Filipinos...
While hoping one day to attend Harvard Law School, the sophomore is currently concentrating on running over Dartmouth—like she could in the Hummer that she drives at home—this coming Friday...
...study also notes that the Hummer brand has produced an intense backlash, including one Internet site where people have posted thousands of photographs of middle fingers directed at Hummer vehicles and their drivers. "I think GM's board should kill Hummer," says Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign at the Center for Auto Safety and a Hummer critic...
...Hall, managing director of 2953 Analytics in Birmingham, Mich., says, "Short term, Hummer has some serious problems but they are solvable." Hummer's future, though, is probably in overseas markets such as Brazil, China, Russia, South Africa and other emerging markets where conspicuous consumption isn't going out of style, he says...