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...czar, as well as a board made up of as many experts as the President deems fit (President Bush will handle the initial appointments, and there is some hope that Obama and Bush can agree on a car czar). By March 31 of next year, Detroit will have to lay out a schedule for how and when they will repay the funds as well as plans for their long-term viability; they must also sell their corporate planes (in a terrible public relations fiasco the Big Three CEOs came to Washington on their jets to beg for public funds...
...praise for Shinseki, 66, needs to be calibrated. While he believed that more troops were needed in post-invasion Iraq, he didn't believe it strongly enough to lay down his four stars and resign. His supporters tend to overlook just how meek his public challenge to Rumsfeld was. He never volunteered it. Senator Carl Levin had to extract it from him, slowly and painfully, during a Senate hearing. That's when, in February 2003, Shinseki said he felt that "something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers" would be needed. Forty-eight hours later, it was the derisive...
...that big three in the corner late, and it boosted our confidence. We have a lot of trust in him.” Colgate came back with a three-point play by senior guard Willie Morse to cut the lead to one. Housman missed a lay-up on the next possession, but freshman forward Keith Wright got the rebound and eventually got the ball to Housman, who was fouled with 18 seconds left. The senior nailed both shots, and the Raiders missed a three-point attempt in the final seconds to come up three points short—with Kenyi?...
...Roxanna uttered a small whimper of disapproval. She looked up at Frederick, then down at Felicity, then up at Frederick again. She could tell it was too late.“I will not abandon you in your time of sin,” she told Frederick huskily, and lay down next to Felicity.Frederick stood above them, his legs spread wide like a colossus, and began to unbuckle his trousers. He heard the drumbeat of anticipation in his ears. Too late, he realized what the drumbeat was: the sound of hoofbeats.“Onward Zalathal!” cried...
...densely populated residential area of Jos, dozens of homes lay crumbling, and blood splatter stained floors, walls and the large peach-colored boulders between homes. Residents displayed three houses where they claim men dressed in army uniforms had killed eight, 11, and three people. Law enforcement officials had been given shoot-on-sight orders by the state governor and had used them. "The security that came to control the situation then started shooting randomly," says Alhaji Muhammed, chairman of one of the political parties at the heart of last week's contentious election. "Before the Army came...