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...Automobiles "R" Still Us As someone who has chosen to return to Detroit after living in New York City and San Francisco, I am offended by the media stereotype of Rust Belt workers left behind in a city of gloom [Dec. 15]. It seems easy to rationalize abandoning the car companies that helped build America's industrial legacy. What's harder is to recognize the significance of these companies as building blocks of the American story and the importance of preserving and reinventing them. The spirit that built Detroit is still alive, and those of us who live here...
...Sports analyst and Hall of Fame ex-quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, who lived through a nightmarish 1-15 season himself as a rookie back in 1989. Several teams have managed to put together only one victory in a season, including the 2007 Miami Dolphins and the 2000 San Diego Chargers. But failing to eke out one win in a league built on mediocrity takes a certain stunning level of ineptitude...
...months of drug counseling following an assault-and-battery arrest involving his fiancée. Among the top players Millen passed over for wide receivers: Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, a Super Bowl winner; five-time Pro Bowl defensive back Troy Polamalu, also a Super Bowl-winning Steeler; and San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman, a three-time Pro Bowler. "If you can't evaluate talent, if you can't draft talent, nothing else matters," says Aikman. "Your team is built on a house of cards...
...comes the lighting of the nation's most famous tree in Rockefeller Center. But Americans might learn a thing or to from the Spaniards; although the Christmas season doesn't really get started until Dec. 22, they do it in style. On that date every year, children from the San Ildefonso School (once an orphanage for boys) sing a three-hour Gregorian chant in which they pick and announce the winning numbers in the world's oldest and - with a total of $3.3 billion given away - by far its biggest lottery. An estimated 3 in 4 Spaniards and thousands...
...saying goes, though, you've gotta be in it to win it, and an estimated 32 million people will be in it this year as the San Ildefenso children draw numbers from large gold drums in the Grand Salon of the Spanish National Lottery in Madrid. One of the drums contains thousands of wooden balls each with a unique ticket number. The smaller vessel contains 1,787 balls displaying a cash amount. Waiting crowds will yell "Gordo! Gordo!" as each prize is matched up with a ticket number, and hope for a little extra stimulus money amid the global financial...