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...lowest level in 54 years, down significantly from $43 last fall after the automaker had signed a new four-year labor contract with the United Auto Workers that included significant concessions. JPMorgan said the company has to raise $10 billion in fresh capital in the next several months. Merrill Lynch was even less optimistic. "We believe there is potential downside in the stock below $7 and that bankruptcy is not impossible if the market continues to deteriorate and significant incremental capital is not raised," Merrill Lynch analyst John Murphy wrote in a note to investors...
There is something upsetting, off-balancing, about "The United States of Lyncherdom" that has kept it alive all these years. It's against lynching, all right, but it seems to take more of an interest in being against righteousness. It makes you wonder whether you yourself, possibly, or let's say your grandmother, might have appeared, smiling, in a photograph of a lynch mob. And just as you're about to block out that queasiness, Twain slams in a snippet of what a particularly despicable lynching (in Texas, as it happened) was like. Oh, God. (The man was slow-roasted...
...Staff writer Amanda C. Lynch can be reached at aclynch@fas.harvard.edu...
...pass laws banning text-messaging behind the wheel. It's a popular activity: YouTube has videos of young adults texting while driving, and about 600 Facebook members have joined a group called I Text Message People While Driving and I Haven't Crashed Yet! TIME's Sarah N. Lynch contacted the group's founder, Taylor Leming, 21, of Round Hill, Va., who submitted her responses via e-mail...
...record one-day surge in oil prices of more than $10 a barrel on June 6; China's Shanghai stock market plunged 7.7% on June 10, its steepest drop in a year. While investors and economists are worried about a number of economic headwinds, rising oil prices, said Merrill Lynch in a recent report, "pose the major growth and inflation risk for Asia going forward...