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...metropolitan Detroit, a Free Press reporter drove some 160 miles across the state to Grand Rapids to live-blog the game from a chicken-wing restaurant. At a dinner party the night of the game, word of the Lions' win sparked mixed reactions. "Say what?" one woman asked upon hearing the news. Another dinner attendee, retired auto executive Mark Reynolds, compared the Lions to the New York Mets of 1969 - the year the Mets eschewed their status as one of professional baseball's worst-performing teams by winning the World Series. "They had fans wishing, and praying, that this year...
...companies and promises to intervene if prices rise or fall too steeply. It will order a 30-minute trading suspension if a newly listed company's share price changes by 20% from the IPO price, and then a second 30-minute timeout if the price moves by another 30% upon resumption...
...thrown to the lions and put in prison because of ancient history - and as he was traveling to an event honoring him - is absolutely horrifying," French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand said after Polanski was arrested upon arrival in Switzerland to attend the Zurich Film Festival, where he was to receive a lifetime achievement award. "There's an America we love and an America that scares us, and it's that latter America that has just shown us its face." In comments that appeared to be directed at Swiss and American authorities to free Polanski, Mitterrand added...
...that's particularly dangerous in an election year. So far, Bing seems unfazed by both the challenges and his constituents' skepticism: only 17% of Detroit's registered voters bothered to show up at the polls for the August primary. "Changes that should have happened 20 years ago are now upon us," Bing told me. "Previous administrations had folks who were so concerned about getting elected, or re-elected. I'm not worried about that." (See pictures of a day in the life of Detroit Mayor Bing...
...Upon the advice of our American friends, and others, when they told us to maybe get in touch with Pyongyang and Iran, and encourage them and talk to them so that they would not go to the use of nuclear energy for military purposes, divert the potentials of the capability they have for peaceful means, the actions or the answers from those such countries was, What did Libya gain in the trade...