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...other hand, there's John Dingell. Michigan's eternal Congressman, defender of Detroit's carbon-spewing gas hogs, would seem an unlikely cause for optimism. After all, his wife Deborah is a General Motors Foundation trustee, leading his critics to assert that Dingell is literally in bed with the auto industry...
...Confidence indices like the CCI and the Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index rely on consumer surveys, telephone or mail-based, to give the marketplace an indication of what consumers think of current and future economic conditions. This presents several problems: who answers or fills out these surveys, are they truly representative of the U.S. population (how many of you reading this column have participated in a consumer confidence survey, for instance?), and do consumers really reveal their true sentiments...
...They prove you don't have to be a politician or a billionaire to do the right thing. In the end, simple acts of humanity and justice can change the world. I look forward to discovering what I can do to help our fragile planet. John Jacob, East Lansing, Michigan...
...players from the recruiting class call California home, with five from New Jersey, including fullback/linebacker Anthony Rotio from the Lawrenceville School, traditionally a hot-bed for lacrosse talent. Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and Texas will each send three incoming freshman to the Crimson football program, while nine other states will each send a single player to Harvard...
...chronically scruffy auteur may play the game tonight and get all tuxed up. But he's still a blue-collar kid from Flint, Michigan - the car town that became a poor town when GM closed many of its plants. A classic entertainer and a professional mensch, he knows how to couch a daunting issue in human terms. In Sicko, as he said at a Cannes press conference today, the larger questions are: "Who are we? What has become of us? Where is our soul...