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Czar or no czar, Obama has a genuine crisis boiling up in Detroit. Without major changes in the structure of the industry, the auto business is going to sink under mountainous waves of red ink. GM and Chrysler were in trouble even before the recession tore the bottom out of sales - and Ford's slightly better financial picture has been clouded by nearly $15 billion in losses last year...
...Standout Ko did not disappoint either, bageling Natalia Sanchez in the first set and earning a 6-0, 6-1 overall. “Beier Ko and Peterzan led the way,” Green said. “Beier got out there and tore through her opponent very quickly. Laura was able to grind out a tough match to take us to 3-0. Camille then clinched the match, ensuring victory.” Despite the close loss to the Big Green, the Crimson finished the weekend on a high note. Jania did especially well this weekend, boasting...
...memoirs, Ruskin writes of the pristine Alps, meadows, and lilac trees of his childhood, noting that these were eventually paved through by railroads and left “filthy with cigar ashes” by travelers who “knocked the paling about, roared at the cows, and tore down what branches of blossom they could reach.” Nature writing in cases like this is not mere romanticism, for the emotional link it forges props up the reams of statistical evidence produced by science. Nor is it manipulative, for it encourages our noblest impulses (as appeals...
Wait, he chases your wife around the house? Last Saturday he jumped on her leg and tore her pants a little bit, so I had to put the groundhog away and kind of comfort the wife and take her out to dinner. Nothing major, just stuff like that. His new thing is that he pulls lamps off of tables...
...paying property taxes that didn't reflect the true value of their house, but a value fueled by an assessment of their neighbor's recent renovation. Lindsey may have felt a little guilty. He and his wife had just completed what he described as "an upgrade" - he tore down one house and replaced it with a larger one - to the property they had lived on for the past 20 years. "It's not fair for [my neighbors] to have their property reassessed because of the renovations we've done," says Lindsey, a Republican legislator since 2005. "Property taxes should...