| Renault's tres bon!
RENAULT are coming out all guns blazing this year with SIX new model launches. And the French carmakers have something for just about every customer as they stretch their line-up to new levels of versatility. This year will see them move into the 4x4 market for the first time with their stylish Koleos, pictured. Its softer, curvier lines could appeal to buyers looking for a less macho 4x4, particularly with prices expected to be well under 20,000 for the entry version. But Renault’s brightest new star will be a coupe version of the Laguna, main picture - the sexiest thing to come out of France for years. This Laguna will be Renault’s new flagship and it has shades of Aston Martin in the muscular treatment of the rear. Unfortunately, the production version won’t have the gull-wing doors that were on the concept car on which it is based.
Low Cost Shared-Ride Shuttle Introduced at London Airports Nov. 1
LONDON, Oct. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Travelers to London, where a taxi between airport and hotel can cost a heart-stopping $125, are about to get a break. Beginning Nov. 1, National Express Group, the leading UK transportation company, will introduce dot2dot, a shared-ride airport transfer service running between Heathrow and Gatwick airports and central London hotels. The new service, priced at 22 pounds ($44.66) per person, is the UK's first large-scale airport shuttle. With a maximum of four stops on any trip, it is designed to reduce the hassle as well as the expense of getting to and from the airport. The UK company hopes to get a boost in the North American market through its affiliation with GO Airport Shuttle, a consortium of airport shuttle providers that service more than 100 airports throughout the United States and Canada.
Mitsubishi would owe taxpayers: Rann
Premier Mike Rann says the South Australian Government would demand that Mitsubishi repay millions of dollars in taxpayers' support if it pulls out of Australia. The company's board meets in Japan today to consider a closure of the loss-making Australian operation in Adelaide. Mr Rann has told Adelaide commercial radio that the SA and Federal Governments have spent millions of dollars on subsidies for the car maker. "If they announce today the closure of Mitsubishi in total breach of the arrangements that they entered into ... and I have to say there are other things they entered into - they were going to set up an R & D (research and development) centre to employ up to 300 engineers, develop a new luxury export vehicle, then I'll be asking for the money back, simple as that," Mr Rann said.
Madeleine McCann: A Pundit Says, Judge Eurico Reis Orders And The Sun ...
As you say, they went along with a plan to make money from their dead child, and are willing to lie to the whole world in order to make this money. IMO, they were making money off of Madeleine, even when she was alive. It is too unspeakable. No wonder the priest in PDL called them "lost souls". They have no conscience and are beyond hope. Yet , still, to be clear-headed about this, the McCanns are being manipulated by Clarence Mitchell, whose salary is paid for by Brian Kennedy, who received pounds 60million financing from the Royal Bank of Scotland (RSB) on May 21, 2007. And the RSB was the bank that offered customers the opportunity to make over-the-counter cash payments to the FindMadeleineFund. How many other times in history has this bank, or any bank, done such a thing for a family with a missing child? And BTW those cash payments were never publically accounted for — no one knows where they went.
Was George Plimpton a Literary Giant?
Readers of Exit Ghost will recognize that I'm referring to the extended critical reassessment of the late sportswriter and fireworks enthusiast that Philip Roth weaves into the climax of his novel. (For Stephen Metcalf's more comprehensive assessment of Exit Ghost, click here.) Yes, I know that Plimpton was also editor of the Paris Review, an important literary magazine. But Zuckerman focuses on Plimpton the writer. Yes, I am further aware that Zuckerman, the protagonist of a series of short novels of which Exit Ghost, Roth says, will be the last, is a fictional character who should not be mistaken for the author's proxy. Even so, Roth has always invited readers to take Zuckerman's literary sensibility more or less at face value. Zuckerman's ruminations about George Plimpton's underappreciated genius therefore left me scratching my head.
May 2007 Archive
ELIDA— After voters here shot down the school district's bond issue last November, officials have regrouped and will place an amended building project proposal before Continue » T-Birds get 1st softball victorySports (592 words) OTTOVILLE — Lima Central Catholic had gone an 0-for in its first 11 softball games this spring. The Lady Thunderbirds finally put all the pieces together Continue » Fort Jennings Envirothon Teams take first, secondLocal News (423 words) FORT JENNINGS — The annual Area I Envirothon was held recently in Wood County at the Wood County Historical Society. Seventy-eight teams competed in the day Continue » May 5th, 2007 Jeffcats rally past PauldingSports (529 words) DELPHOS — The Jefferson baseball Wildcats scored two runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to rally from a 3-2 deficit and defeat the Continue » Jefferson softballers slug Paulding 12-3Sports (781 words) DELPHOS — Jefferson's bats set the tone early, putting up a 5 spot in the bottom of the first.
Tucson seeks sports funds
Tucson business leaders are pitching the creation of a regional sports authority to generate money to refurbish ball fields and better compete with Maricopa County, where spring training is booming. The Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce broached the idea with the Tucson City Council this week and stressed that maintaining three Major League Baseball teams, which gave an estimated $30 million boost to the Tucson-area economy last year, would require regional cooperation. "Nobody can do this lifting on its own. We need as many tools in our financing toolbox as we can find," said Tom Tracy, president of the Lodging Co., a lodging consulting firm. .
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