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Shopping for a new sports car over the summer, David Beverly found plenty of choices, at attractive prices. Hunting for a sexy machine under $40,000, he surveyed vehicles ranging from Detroit's muscle cars to newer models by Audi, BMW and Honda. What really caught his eye was Nissan's sizzling new two-seater, the 350Z. A mortgage banker from Austin, Texas, Beverly loved its specs: a powerful engine, modern design, solid engineering and a price around $36,000, with all the trimmings. After reading raves about the vehicle, he says, "I knew I had to have...
...risks of producing sports cars are so high that a weakened Detroit is treading cautiously compared with its foreign rivals. Having seen their combined share of the U.S. car market drop to 47%, from 65% in 1992, and in the midst of multiyear turnaround plans, Chrysler, Ford and GM argue that siphoning resources from their most profitable product lines--trucks and SUVs--would be foolish. "It's a question of priorities," says Chris Theodore, Ford's vice president for North American product development. "Nobody here says you can't build a two-seater, but it comes down to making...
Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton of Detroit headlined the event, called “U.S. Human Rights Policy, Iraq and Palestine/Israel.” He laid out a long list of religious and political objections...
...Jahjah founded the Arab European League two years ago; it now claims close to 1,000 members across Europe. He is not anti-American; in fact, he admires anti-discrimination laws in the U.S. "America's race laws are more advanced than here," he says. "I have relatives in Detroit and they are Arab-Americans but they feel American. I don't feel European. Europe needs to make its concept of citizenship inclusive to all cultures and religions. I'm a practicing Muslim but I'm not a freak. I'm not a fundamentalist." According to immigration records, Abou Jahjah...
...helps assuage this inequity by banning soft money contributions and preventing the broadcast of independently-financed “issue ads,” which are usually misleading and negative. Candidates will have to rely on the squeaks of California field hands, Detroit metal fitters and Cambridge academics to finance their campaigns, not the few booming voices of the wealthy. Smaller contributions, which can be matched with federal funds, will no longer get ignored by politicians who are responsive only to those capable of millions of dollars worth of “free speech...