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NYT SUNDAY NIGHT: IT’S OFFICIAL- GM PRESSED INTO BANKRUPTCY COURTS President Obama pushed General Motors into bankruptcy protection today, making a risky economic and political bet that by nationalizing for a period of years the onetime icon of American capitalism, he can save the company as a much smaller automaker that is competitive. Aides said [...]
Let us praise famous bars. Let us pay tribute, where tribute is due, in chicken wing city, to the bars of Buffalo. And a toast to the city in which and for which they stand. Once home to more millionaires than any other American city, it is the town that witnessed the inauguration of Theodore [...]
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