“Summers was an impressive candidate from the outset. … But Summers’s temperament was troubling to some members of the corporation. The word from Washington was that he could be peremptory, condescending, impatient with lesser mortals. He had, as Robert Rubin, Summers’s mentor and predecessor as treasury secretary, delicately put it, ”a rough-edges issue.” Rubin says […]
“John Kerr, owner of Wazoo Records of 33612 State St., said he has been told the two-way traffic would increase business because cars would travel slower and notice businesses more often. “I’m real curious to see if it has the desired effect,” Kerr said. “It will be a lot easier to give directions and a […]
… “The University of Illinois has canceled 1,000 classes on hundreds of subjects this year. Up to 1,000 students at the University of North Carolina will be shut out of beginning Spanish. The University of Colorado has eliminated academic programs in journalism, business and engineering. The University of California has put off opening an entire […]
The Ann Arbor Police are excited about their new Tasers, devices that shoots two small darts up to 20 feet, penetrating the skin by “no more than one-fourth of an inch” that then zap people with enough electricity to make them collapse and curl into a ball involuntarily. In the Ann Arbor News article, Chief […]
May 2003:“American imperial adventures are usually rehearsed at Bilderberg meetings. Europe’s elite were opposed to an American invasion of Iraq since the 2002 Bilderberg meeting in Chantilly, Virginia. Rumsfeld himself had promised them it wouldn’t happen. Last week, everybody struck back at Rumsfeld, asking about the infamous “weapons of mass destruction”. Most of Europe’s elite […]
Things are heating up … at marching band practice, for the privilege of performing at U-M football games.> Freep: “Making the cut at training camp”
Let’s see … Borders’ Books is reporting large profits, but are still blocking efforts by employees to unionize their stores in Ann Arbor and Minneapolis MN, a man was attacked on his porch in the student ghetto, Republican state legislators want to amend the state constitution so 2/3 of the state legislature can veto any […]