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...without a fight. Carlos Ghosn, head of Renault-Nissan, recently announced that his company was looking at building a $3,000 car in India. Fiat, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Maruti Udyog (the Indian division of Japanese manufacturer Suzuki), Toyota and Volkswagen are also working on low-cost cars, though none of them have promised anything quite as cheap...
...Boss would ever abandon big themes and return to big tunes. Here he has both. Springsteen notes the greed and apathy subsuming America, but the ever tight E Street Band generates enough optimism and heat that you believe him when he sings, "We're livin' in the future and none of this has happened...
...This is the strangest sight I have ever seen," said the pilot of the spotter plane. It was Nov. 1, 1950, and he was looking at two divisions of Chinese infantry where none should have been, advancing under heavy shelling as if in a light rain. It was perhaps the first modern "mission accomplished" moment. The U.S. thought it had the Korean War sewn up, but it spent the next three years slugging it out with Mao's "volunteers." In The Coldest Winter (Hyperion; 736 pages), David Halberstam, who died in April, brings angry wisdom to a conflict that, after...
...flew for a total of 2 sec.--and traveled 4 ft. (1.2 m)--before eating itself in a fiery explosion. The global hilarity was immediate, but U.S. officials--who had much to learn about the science of rocketry but clearly knew plenty about the art of spin--would have none of it. Asked to explain the cause of the explosion, a spokesman denied one had taken place. Asked what had occurred on the pad, he answered, "Rapid burning...
...actions the defense contested appeared simple: a few taps of the foot; three swipes of the hand, peering through a crack of a restroom stall. Defense attorney Billy Martin argued that "none of those facts in and of themselves constitute a crime." The defense also argued that the absence of a judge's signature on Craig's original plea petition should nullify it. Judge Porter did not look kindly on it. His definition of disorderly conduct is going be hard to overcome...