| Public catches first glimpse of auto show offerings at Cobo Center
Thousands of automobile fans, ranging from seniors to small children packed Cobo Center to check out the latest offerings from Audi to Volkswagen and car companies in between. Showroom lights battled with flashes from hundreds of digital cameras like a laser show that constantly reflected off the polished new vehicles. "It's awesome," Mike Zundel, 23, of Ann Arbor said while looking over the Acura RDX. "I've been checking out a lot of nice cars." The show continues today at 9 a.m. and runs through Jan. 27. At each turn along a seemingly never-ending maze of walkways, there's something to catch everyone's eye. Ron Hindbaugh, 67, of Ann Arbor spent the afternoon looking for a fuel-efficient vehicle. He liked what he saw from Volkswagen, particularly the new Jetta, and spent several minutes getting more information about the Chevrolet Volt.
Defusing the Gaza time bomb
A cease-fire goes against today's prevailing theory. But it is the theory itself that goes against logic. Gazans, grateful to Hamas for having significantly improved their security, will say they are distressed by the economic hardships and angry at the Islamists' brutal behavior. To the extent the movement has lost popularity the attempt to enfeeble Hamas by squeezing Gaza is working. Yet the success is meaningless. Hamas's losses are not necessarily Fatah's gains; Gazans blame the Islamists for being unable to end the siege but they also blame Israel (for imposing it), the West (for supporting it), and Fatah (for acquiescing in it). Nor is there evidence that Hamas's grip on power is loosening. To the contrary: as elsewhere, economic punishment is hurting the population far more than its leaders.
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At the top of the supe's long list of problems is the structure of the district, which he says suffers from poor delegating by its leaders, and departments that “operate within a vacuum," with some divisions failing to communicate with others. Yes, LAUSD is concerned about instruction-based reform, which worked in the much-improved elementary schools. But first, Brewer says, he must improve basics like routine communications.A glaring reminder of the communication problems played out at Locke High School in Watts a week before the election, when chaos erupted after the faculty and staff decided they'd had enough of L.A. Unified. Students ditched classes and pressed their noses against gates and windows, hoping to catch a glimpse of Principal Frank Wells, who stood across the street from the school he'd tried desperately to turn around, declaring to a group of reporters, “I'm a fallen soldier today, but I'm standing tomorrow."Days earlier, the district had stripped Wells of his duties and — in what officials believe was an unprecedented moment in the Education Wars — hauled him off campus, accusing him of taking teachers out of classes to sign a petition to let Locke High become an independent charter school, free of the district's rules.More than half the tenured teachers at Locke signed the petition to convert the 2,800-student school into 10 small, Green Dot schools.
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Wii are a family
It has also shifted the balance of power in the $30bn-a-year videogame industry: after years of underperformance, Nintendo is challenging Sony and Microsoft for market leadership. Only a few years ago Nintendo was an also-ran. The group's GameCube had proved a flop. Consumers had shunned it in favour of the Playstation 2 and Microsoft's Xbox, and serious questions were being asked about the company's future direction. .
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