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Despite LaSorda's tough talk, questions are being raised about whether the Windsor native, whose father was a CAW representative at one of the plants he's threatening to close, might be playing the biggest bluff of his career. It seems hard to imagine Chrysler turning its back on the billions it has invested in Canada, and more than 9,000 employees. That LaSorda is even discussing it, though, is a measure of how desperate the times are for automakers. "I'm hoping it's a bluff," says the CAW's Lewenza, "but I've seen this company mothball plants...
...After a tough loss—and one that we only have ourselves to blame for—we’re all hungry to get out and get after somebody,” co-captain Sam Slaughter wrote in an e-mail...
...that is to progressives eager to seize on this "good crisis," it's a natural by-product of giving the vote to Americans who live in coal-burning, oil-drilling, far-driving and heavy-manufacturing regions. One such place is Indiana, whose Democratic Senator, Evan Bayh, will be tough to sell every line of the Obama budget to. "I've spent some time with the President, and my strong impression of him is, at the end of the day, he's a pragmatist," Bayh says. Translation: Obama will take what...
...China. Every time an official from China visits Japan and meets with a Japanese official, they always take up the issue of history. But they do not take up the issue of history when they meet me. I say a lot of things that might in fact sound very tough on their ears...
...about integrity and science. ... She can be tough when she needs to be, and she's going to need to be real tough in that job." -Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association. (AP, March...