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...creating the middle class, Henry. In the throes of the biggest auto swoon since 1931, the headmen of Detroit go hat in hand to Washington to try to keep their once mighty industry upright for a couple of months and are treated as if they had invented the four-wheel-drive subprime mortgage. AIG torpedoes the entire economy and gets a $150 billion handout; Citigroup takes risks no sane manufacturing company would even contemplate and is rewarded with a $20 billion federal bailout. And the car guys...
...named CEO in 1999 to reinvent Ford, bought Volvo and Land Rover to create a luxury portfolio; he saw Ford as more than an auto company and tried to overhaul the culture. He was ousted in 2001 by Bill Ford Jr. - great-grandson of Henry - who took back the wheel for a couple of years...
...leadership. So far, though, none of the companies have given any indication that they are willing to clean house at the top in order to curry favor with Washington. If they don't get enough votes to pass the bailout package, that refusal to put someone different at the wheel may prove to be a very costly miscalculation...
...doesn't hurt that the presenters sometimes crash headlong into trouble. Behind the wheel of their Toyota pickup in the race with a dog-pulled sled to the North Pole last year, Clarkson and fellow presenter James May sipped gin and tonics, earning a rap on the knuckles from BBC trustees. Earlier this month, in a segment designed to find out how hard life is for truckers, Clarkson, at the wheel of a truck, said: "Change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day." More than...
...literal by the set design of Sally H. Rinehart ’09 and Davone J Tines ’09. A Presidential shooting gallery—“Shoot a Prez! Win a prize!”—sits center stage, and a twinkling Ferris wheel looms to the right. This is the kind of timeless, dreamy setting that could only exist in a theater.It’s a great idea, but unfortunately it’s not a new one. Joe Mantello’s “Assassins, which appeared on Broadway four...