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There's a reason King's story feels like a legal thriller: its plot line is melodramatic and painfully one-dimensional. The murder of Byrd is as horrific a crime as can be imagined--chaining a man to a truck and dragging him three miles until he dies of his injuries. And the protagonist is a dime-store white supremacist, spouting anti-black and anti-Semitic dogma and spewing hatred to the bitter end. Last week a Jasper jury tacked a Hollywood ending onto King's life story, convicting him of first-degree murder and sentencing him to death...
...drastic restructuring effort in Japanese corporate history. So far he has off-loaded a few subsidiaries (leasing and advertising), banned corporate entertainment and sold the company's 15-story headquarters on Tokyo's glitzy Ginza. In a more dramatic gesture two weeks ago, Nissan Diesel, the group's commercial-truck division, announced it was closing a plant in Gunma, north of Tokyo, and eliminating 3,000 jobs in the process--a radical move...
...still step in to save the Japanese. Even before CEO Juergen Schrempp inked a deal to acquire Chrysler Corp. for $37 billion last May, his Stuttgart brain trust was urging him to buy a controlling stake in Nissan Diesel. That would give Daimler, the world's largest commercial-truck producer, a solid foothold in Asia...
...lesson to be gleaned from Jasper, Texas, is not that a racist murderer, John William King, was convicted and sentenced to die on Thursday for the horrific dragging death of a black man behind a pickup truck. The lesson, says TIME correspondent Sam Gwynne, is that the community did not blow apart over the crime; it let the criminal justice system run its course...
...different kind of green (as in environment) is raising all sorts of red flags from environmentalists. The Sierra Club has already dubbed the Excursion a ?suburban assault vehicle? and one of the group's officials described it as ?a garbage truck that dumps its pollution into the sky.? That the new gas guzzler should be a Ford is rather ironic, says Christian. Company chairman William Clay Ford has vowed to make the automaker the leader in developing clean vehicles. Ford's explanation of the apparent Excursion eco-paradox: SUV consumers are not particularly concerned about gas consumption; nevertheless, the vehicle...