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Some creditors seem to think the company's assets could be worth more if they were divided up in bankruptcy court - an option opposed by Michigan's Democratic governor and congressional representatives, who are putting pressure on the Obama administration to keep the company from being broken up in bankruptcy...
...grew as a writer and what she did in the book she couldn’t have done as a student.” Ganeshananthan continues to develop her career, planning to begin a new job as Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Michigan in the fall and working on her second novel. “It will probably have some similar themes and concerns,” shey says, “but, again, I’m sort of just focusing on the getting actual machinery of the story working...
...opinions.”Beer, the chair of the Harvard government department from 1954 to 1958, served as the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government for years before moving to Boston College in 1982 to be a professor of American politics.Receiving his B.A. from the University of Michigan, Beer went to England on a Rhodes Scholarship before receiving his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard in 1943. He was later granted an honorary doctorate from the University in 1997 in recognition of “his scholarship and [the] enormous impact his teaching had on undergraduates for over three...
...requested by Michigan's two senators and one congresswoman: "...for downtown Detroit energy efficient street lighting. That's the least of the city's problems." (See the photo essay, "The Remains of Detroit...
...report also noted that this was the first time Moody's analysts were broadly worried about the ability of local governments to pay back their debts. Among the places Moody's finds to be most troubled are cities in Florida and California, because of the real estate bust, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio, which are being hurt by the drop in manufacturing, and Connecticut, New Jersey and New York, due to the financial crisis...