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30

General Motors’ Roger Smith, of Roger & Me, RIP

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This coverage from NPR includes audio as well as an article on Roger Smith, the former Chairman and CEO of General Motors, who died today at age 82. And, although born in Columbus, he went to University of Michigan.

I loved the movie Roger & Me, even though I knew, as I watched it, that I had to accept that Michael Moore was showing one film and Roger Smith lived a life beyond that one view.

We all do – just like we blog but we live outside our blogs.  We don’t know one another as well as we think, just from reading our blogs.  As forthright as I may be here, it only scratches the surface of who I am.  And I try to remember that when I read posts that bother me  – what does the post really represent beyond the words typed?  A lot, nothing, something in between?

That’s not to say that Roger Smith wasn’t an evil person, as many people who watched the movie may have concluded, not to mention all the folks in Flint, MI and beyond.

But, for example, when Capri Cafaro did Meet the Bloggers, I was determined to hear her talk about and describe what it was like to be a 20 year old whose father was on trial and then in jail, because of what she had to say, with immunity, about actions he’d taken.  And for her to still have so many connections to him, and so publicly.  Now that helps you go behind the music, or mayhem, or motors.

Anyway, RIP, Roger.  I’m curious to read whatever, if anything, Michael Moore might have to say.  Just because, and not because I expect anything in particular.  What, really, could he say that he didn’t say in that movie?

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:39 pm November 30th, 2007 in Business, Culture | 6 Comments 

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Nov

30

Hoya in the ‘house? My classmate, Dennis Murray, Jr. (D) runs for Redfern’s seat

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I just read this post on Ohio Daily Blog and I am so tickled. Dennis was one of my very first friends at Georgetown and we took at least a few classes together – I particularly remember an intro to Conlaw class that I nearly flunked (he was a MUCH better student).

I wish him much, much luck in his race and maybe, just maybe, knowing that there might be fellow Hoyas in the ‘house, maybe I’ll consider running for something – after 2015.

Hoya Saxa, baby!

Two other very, very odd coincidences are that a former law school boyfriend of mine worked for the Murray firm in the 1990s and then one of my closest friends from law school worked at the firm for a few years a little bit after that.  Small world indeed.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:53 pm November 30th, 2007 in Announcements, Campaigning, Elections, Ohio, Politics, Statehouse | 6 Comments 

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30

Some Sudanese want British teacher dead

Filed Under Civil Rights, Foreign Affairs, Religion, Social Issues | 36 Comments

This is just unbelievable.

Yesterday’s post on Gillian Gibbon’s odyssey as a teacher.

It’s not that I don’t understand intellectually what they’re saying their belief requires or demands.  But I fail to see how the instigating incident comes anything close to demanding the penalty, if we even accept the penalty as appropriate (which is obviously more than a little “if”).

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:10 am November 30th, 2007 in Civil Rights, Foreign Affairs, Religion, Social Issues | 36 Comments 

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