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...First Things First Before planning for the future, however, Detroit still has to get through the present. GM has been on life support since Dec. 19, when the outgoing Bush Administration threw it a short-term loan and told the company that it had until March 31 to come up with a plan for its long-term survival. It did - but its strategy was premised on projections that car sales would begin to pick up this year after last year's dismal industry performance, in which sales sank 18%, to 13.2 million units. But the pickup hasn't happened...
...acre site at Bow Creek in 1846, bashing out ships for much of Europe. Eager for jobs, workers from all over the country poured in. The seasonal or casual work on offer meant few could afford comfortable places to live, though; landlords, well aware of the fact, threw up cheap housing without toilets, bathrooms and oftentimes drinking water. The over-crowding and disease appalled visitors. Behind one row of houses, Charles Dickens noted "a cesspool, bubbling and seething with the constant rise of the foul products of decomposition." The grubby, "consumptive-looking ducks" swimming upon it, he wrote...
...decades ago. As always, the mood today was mercurial. Organizers of the gathering, a movement calling itself G-20 Meltdown, had promised a "peaceful and fun street party." For much of the protest, that's what they got. While anarchists, many dressed from head to toe in black, threw paint at the bank and beer cans and insults at police, most kept their protests peaceful. By late afternoon, with police still skirmishing with some, two dozen demonstrators had been arrested and a handful of officers injured. (See pictures of the protests in London...
...hadn’t heard much about her before she came in, but our first practice in September, the first five balls she threw to me, I think I almost cried,” said co-captain Hayley Bock, the team’s starting catcher. “She can throw it for strikes; she can throw it so batters chase it…she’s surpassed my expectations...
...team found each when it mattered.Picking up against Penn (10-11, 0-4 Ivy League) at Meiklejohn Field in games rescheduled due to Sunday rain, the Crimson (4-16, 2-2) used dramatic comebacks in both contests to sweep the Quakers and even its league record. Freshman Brent Suter threw a sterling complete game to silence Penn in the day’s opener for a 6-4 win, before Harvard’s bats took over in the nightcap. Senior left fielder Matt Rogers belted two home runs, including a two-run shot in the eighth inning, to help...