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...Nardelli, brought in to save the company, out of a job. "We can acknowledge that we have been in contact with a variety of federal officials for some time during this extraordinary and difficult economic period," said GM spokesman Tom Wilkinson. "We have said publicly, in comment to the Michigan [congressional] delegation's call for support of the industry, that we believe the Federal Government should consider all of the tools available to it - some recently enacted - to support industries that are in distress and that are essential to the U.S. economy," he said. On Thursday, those efforts got another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GM and Chrysler, Near a Deal, Press for Federal Aid | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...There is no question as to which candidate is qualified to serve this great country. McCain is ready to stand up and fight for our country and our freedom. He won't just be "present" while looking cool and working on his next book deal. Sharon Peterson, Clinton Township, Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

Harvard had been one of five academic libraries—along with Stanford, Oxford, Michigan, and the New York Public Library—to partner with Google when the book scanning initiative was announced in October 2004. University officials said that Harvard would continue its policy of only allowing Google to scan books whose copyrights have expired...

Author: By Laura G. Mirviss, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard-Google Online Book Deal at Risk | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...areas of the country are suffering equally. In Chicago last month, Donald Trump stood atop his new, 92-story condo-hotel tower just off this city's most prominent boulevard, Michigan Avenue. "There's an economic disaster going on in the country," Trump dryly acknowledged. "A lot of things you think will be built in Chicago and elsewhere will never be built. The banks are shut down. But we got this one built, and we're proud of it." Getting it built and getting it sold are two different things, however. Many of the gleaming building's units remain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Housing Bust: Signs of a Bottoming Out? | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...voted in favor of the officers and awarded them $6.5 million. Though he vowed to appeal the verdict, Kilpatrick eventually brokered a secret deal that awarded the officers $8.4 million in public money in exchange for their silence about the extramarital affair. Four months later, local media outlets used Michigan's Freedom of Information Act to obtain all relevant trial documents and, in January, the Detroit Free Press published excerpts from the more than 14,000 intimate text messages sent between Beatty and Kilpatrick via city-issued pagers. In March, the local county prosecutor charged Kilpatrick and Beatty with official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kwame Kilpatrick | 10/28/2008 | See Source »

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