It simply would not be possible to make these cuts by trimming around the edges.

Anyone inclined to view Paul Laurence Dunbar as an apologist for the South or as a white-identified 'Uncle Tom' would be quickly disabused of that view by reading the caustic, eloquent attacks on white racism that Dunbar published in newspapers,

I get fans stopping me and telling me what a bad man I am. I got a lot of that at Comic-Con. I'd tell them, 'Sorry, mate.'

The fact that GM opted to cut production a lot rather than raise incentives again suggest the jig is up. The kinds of levels we're seeing will be there, but I don't know we'll get incrementally higher.

I think the companies are indicating a willingness to give strong wage increases. If they can cut five percent of the work force through attrition, they can give 4 percent wage gains annually and come out ahead.

The proof of the pudding is that the Ford Explorer has seen virtually no decline in August.