Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

The Game Is Good, You Know This. The Question Is How Good

Grand Theft Auto Vice City good, you know this. The question is how good? Luckily for you, I have the answer. Grand Theft Auto Vice City isn’t just good, but it’s amazing. It takes everything Grand Theft Auto 3 did well and improves on it. The game is like a prime example of style over [...]

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

American Axle Makes New Offer to UAW

In a statement released later Sunday, American Axle said the UAW rejected its request that a federal mediator assist in the negotiations.”AAM had hoped that the involvement of an impartial third party at the bargaining table could assist both sides. … AAM was disappointed in the UAW’s decision,” the statement said.UAW President Ron Gettelfinger said [...]

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Lithia says refunded auto incentives probe ongoing

By Soyoung Kim
DETROIT, March 19 (Reuters) - U.S. car dealership group
Lithia Motors Inc (LAD.N: Quote, Profile, Research) has refunded $158,500 to automakers
after finding three of its stores had improperly reported auto
sales in order to take incentive money from the manufacturers,
the company said in filing with securities regulators.
Lithia, the [...]

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Iran Confirms New Nuclear Centrifuges

Meanwhile, a senior Iranian official on Sunday blamed the U.S. for Tehran’s refusal to respond to an International Atomic Energy Agency probe into whether Iran tried to make nuclear weapons in the past. Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, Iran’s chief delegate to the IAEA, claimed information provided by Washington and used by the U.N. agency was fake [...]

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

Blue Water Asarco Buffets Delphi Bankruptcy (Update1)

Blue Water, Asarco, Buffets, Delphi: Bankruptcy (Update1)
By Bill Rochelle
Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) — Blue Water Automotive Systems Inc., a
designer and manufacturer of plastic components and assemblies
for the auto industry, filed a Chapter 11 petition Feb. 12 in
Detroit along with four [...]

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Delphi MAXjet Dura Bombay New Century Bankruptcy (Update1)

Delphi, MAXjet, Dura, Bombay, New Century: Bankruptcy (Update1)
By Bill Rochelle
Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) — MAXjet Airways Inc., the startup
airline that shut down and filed on Christmas Eve to liquidate in
Chapter 11, will appear in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware on
Feb. [...]

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

One father’s struggle as a town hides its grief

Occasionally, they still visit Dunblane, to see the school on Doune Road or the small statue by the Fourways roundabout or the cemetery and garden of remembrance. They are strangers but they still want a part of this town which sits on the hills above the Forth valley on the edge of Perthshire.There are some [...]

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

A pouch full of tigers

Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger by Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson, illustrated by Alexis Rockman321pp, Canongate, %26pound;10.99In the 1990s, the World Conservation Union clarified its definition of extinct. A species was officially extinct when there was “no reasonable doubt” the last individual was dead. There used to be a 50-year [...]