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...many ways, Gregory's reserve speaks for Detroit. Bing assumed the mayoralty in a special election in May, after the fall of Kwame Kilpatrick, whose promising political career was dashed in a sex-text-messaging scandal that led to a conviction on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. Now Bing, 65, is facing a Nov. 3 election for a full term. To most Detroiters, Bing - despite his basketball fame - often seems a remote, unknowable figure, and the feeling is mutual. He only recently bought a home in the city and still maintains one in an affluent Detroit suburb...
ELECTED NBA legend Dave Bing, 65, won Detroit's mayoral race, unseating scandal-ridden Kwame Kilpatrick's interim replacement, Ken Cockrel...
...Detroit Free Press, one of the old city dailies, on the brink of extinction and in the shadow of the failing car industry, won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting. Last year, the paper published text messages between the city's mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, and his female chief of staff. The mayor went to jail...
...affluence around him. His idea that what we spend money on affects what we don’t spend money on—saving lives, for example—relates closely to Ronell’s considerations of morals in a potentially meaningless existence and cultural theorist Kwame Anthony Appiah’s thoughts on what it means to be a cosmopolitan in an ever-shrinking world. Indeed, part of the success of “Examined Life” comes from the flow and interaction between each of the philosophers’ ideas, even though they never meet face-to-face.Taylor...
...Former Detroit mayor and laughable clown Kwame Kilpatrick jailed for his part in a sex-and-text scandal after his half-baked story about HAXXORS taking over his phone turned out to be, well, ostensibly that...