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...biggest highlights of Amaker’s coaching tenure, right up there with the upset victories over Michigan and Boston College, came this past weekend, when five major recruits made visits to Cambridge...
...staff still assigned to the Hummer continue to work at turning the cast-off brand into an independent company that could continue to sell vehicles around the world. They have lined up a $20.4 million grant from the state of Michigan to put its headquarters in or around Detroit. The grant, however, is contingent on the completion of the deal with Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery, according to Michigan state officials...
...Sept. 16. One idea: apologize. Studies show that when doctors tell patients they erred and are sorry, litigation is much less likely. (Such admissions of guilt are typically inadmissible in court.) Since launching a program in which doctors admit errors and offer payments out of court, the University of Michigan Health System has cut claims in half...
...even larger problem is brewing, according to Christopher Leinberger, a real estate professor at the University of Michigan and visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. If there are no longer enough people who want to own overgrown houses in far-flung suburbs, we could see a repeat of what happened in center cities in the 1950s and '60s, when abandoned homes helped set off blight. What we really need to do, Leinberger says, is reinvent entire communities as the sorts of places where people want to live. That means building mass transit and urban-style city centers away from...
...many here, the Detroit Lions' surprise victory over the Washington Redskins late Sunday affirmed a regional belief in redemption despite profoundly grim odds. Until that game, the Lions had tortured its most ardent fans with a 19-game losing streak that began in December 2007. Many Michigan residents had come to view the Lions' plight as a reflection of the state's own battle to overcome its economic crisis. So when when the team won 19-14, the relatively sparse crowd in the Detroit stadium roared, and the players wept...