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When the Detroit auto show opens this week, horsepower gains will take center stage as usual, with a parade of bulked-up cars, crossovers and light trucks. But some of the most interesting vehicles on display will be small, even tiny. Audi will showcase a model called the A3, a 200-h.p. hatchback sold in Europe and coming to U.S. dealers in May. Mercedes will unveil its smallest import, a wagonlike "sport tourer" dubbed the Baby Benz, expected to start around $25,000. And get this: DaimlerChrysler will officially launch in the U.S. the Smart brand that has been such...
...Burma's history of official secrecy may be more than just the usual knee-jerk reaction to bad news. The country's generals have been known to view natural events in a highly superstitious light: the discovery of a huge ruby or block of jade or a white elephant is invariably trumpeted as a validation of their rule, while a major earthquake could be seen as an omen of impending regime change. Whatever the tsunami's heavenly consequences for their rulers, however, ordinary Burmese have every reason to feel lucky...
...help restore power in Sumatra and Sri Lanka. Aid groups have been heartened by the outpouring of corporate generosity. Oxfam International's British chapter has been so overwhelmed by donations that it's still counting the money. "The response this time from corporations has been much larger than usual," says spokeswoman Anna Mitchell. But with the tsunami-torn countries facing a long, slow, painful recovery, Oxfam and other groups hope this first wave of help won't be the last...
Blackness includes the usual complement of interviews with experts and star voices (Samuel L. Jackson reads Johnson's quotes), but as in Burns' earlier projects, the real star here is the archival material, especially the excavated fight reels. In one, Johnson teasingly applauds an opponent midround for landing a punch. In the Tommy Burns fight, the frame freezes as police stop the fight and order the cameras stilled to spare the world the trauma of seeing a black fighter whip a white one. On film, Johnson's singularity is stark: he is a lone, relentless black giant amidst...
Ravaged en masse by what Donato labeled “a nasal infection,” Harvard’s skaters were noticeably a step slower than usual, struggling to crash the net and generate traffic just beyond the Wildcats’ netminder Tuomas Tarkki’s crease. Soft rebounds left on Tarkki’s doorstep that would otherwise have been pounced upon and poked home were regularly corralled by Northern Michigan’s blueliners and cleared from harm’s way with minimal challenge from the Crimson’s forwards...