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  • General Motors recalls 231000 SUVs over fire risk

    US General Motors Co. is set to recall about 231,000 older SUVs over fire risks and has urged owners to park them outside garages until they are repaired, a media report said. The Detroit-based automaker agreed to recall 193,000 2006-2007 Chevrolet Trailblazer, GMC Envoy, Buick Rainier, SAAB 9-7x, Isuzu Ascender and 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer EXT and GMC Envoy XL in the US, reported ...

  • Records Tucker Cipriano has received several visitors $2415 for his jail account

    Tucker Cipriano has received several visitors over the past 13 months in the Oakland County Jail, including three young women and an uncle who has deposited $1,600 in his jail account, according to documents obtained by the Free Press under the Freedom of Information Act.Jail records show Cipriano, 20, has had a steady stream of visits since his arrest in the April 16, 2012, baseball bat attack ...

  • General Motors demands wage cuts from Australian workforce

    General Motors Holden (GMH) yesterday demanded that its Australian workforce accept further job losses, major wage cuts and productivity speed-ups by the end of August. Managing director Mike Devereux stated that unless workers agreed, GM would join Ford and cease car production in Australia. Last month Ford announced the closure of its assembly plants in Melbourne and Geelong in 2016, ...

  • SEP candidate in Detroit speaks with workers about attack on pensions

    Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr has made it clear one of the primary targets of his plan to "restructure" Detroit" will be the decimation of city workers' pensions. By insisting that pensions are no more than an "unsecured debt," Orr is seeking to circumvent legal protections for pensions spelled out in the Michigan's state constitution and Detroit's ...

  • Michigan State proposes bigger tuition hike for upperclassmen

    For the first time at Michigan State University, upperclassmen could face a higher tuition increase than freshmen and sophomores. During a press briefing Tuesday, MSU officials outlined proposed tuition increases of 1.9 percent for freshmen and sophomores and 3.6 percent for upperclassmen in 2013-14. Trustees are expected to vote Friday on the increases. Meanwhile, resident undergraduates at ...


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Movie Review

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Most film scholars will tell you that there are two quintessential American genres: the Western and the gangster film. Because iconoclastic independent writer/director Jim Jarmusch has already deconstructed the Western in "Dead Man" (1995), it is only logical that for his next narrative film he would turn his sights on the gangster film. ...

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