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...made near Pittsburgh, Pa., is set in an "inbred mining town" called Harmony, where, years before, a nut in a miner's suit and mask killed a bunch of high school kids with appropriate tools, mainly a pickax. Now he, or a copycat, is again bloodily reducing the population - as if the Rust Belt didn't have enough problems. The principles here are sheriff Axel Palmer (Kerr Smith), his wife Sarah (horror honey Jaime King) and the mine owner's son Tom Hanniger (Jensen Ackles), who was Sarah's beau back in the previously awful day. To secure...
...Fiat, on the other hand, the sudden infusion of cash and the new chief executive's plans for streamlining management helped the Turin company begin a notable turnaround after its decade-long crisis and raised Marchionne to near mythical status in carmaking circles. Tuesday's joint statement notes that "Fiat would provide management services supporting Chrysler's submission of a viability plan to the U.S. Treasury as required. Fiat has been very successful in executing its own restructuring over the past several years...
...already said that with the current situation in world markets, there needs to be major consolidation in the car business, and as we've shown today, we'd like to be part of that." Still, despite its more recent success, the Italian company's share price is near an all-time low, and Tuesday's deal may have been an attempt, above all, by Fiat to strut for investors. Fiat shares, which had been suspended earlier Tuesday, rose nearly 4.5% after the deal was announced, only to end the trading day in Milan down 1.3%, to 4.42 euros...
...left no base uncovered. It noted that there are "scenarios of concern": the use of Iraq-style improvised explosive devices, Mumbai-style armed assault and hostage-taking, and suicide bombing. It said law-enforcement agencies should be watchful for lone offenders, attacks on soft targets (hotels, restaurants, transport, etc.) near the Capitol and explosives placed in "heavily trafficked areas...
...Throughout his campaign Obama correctly (if incompletely, considering the near civil war boiling over in neighboring Pakistan) identified Afghanistan as the central front in the war on terrorism. He has echoed the demands of commanders on the ground for more troops, and the Pentagon has tentatively agreed to send as many as 30,000 more U.S. soldiers to the country. That will nearly double the number of American troops on the ground, and bring the total number of foreign soldiers, including those of NATO nations, to about 92,000. (Iraq, which is smaller in both size and population...