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"&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Sports Illustrated&lt;strong&gt;Assignment Detroit &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;By Terry McDonell&lt;/em&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;This summer the news division at Time Inc. bought a house in Detroit. Why? Following the lead of editor-in-chief John Huey, the editors agreed that even Detroit's unequaled influence on the economic and social evolution of America as the cradle of the nation's middle class was scraping bottom, and that the city's rise and fall and struggle to rise again reflected the harshest of changing American realities. So what's it really like to live in Detroit? That's where the house on Parker Avenue comes in.READ FULL STORY&lt;strong&gt;Tigertown &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;By Lee Jenkins&lt;/em&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;They overlap before home games on Thursday afternoons, the thousands rushing into Comerica Park and the hundreds filing into Central United Methodist Church one block over on East Adams. The crowd streaming into the yard is drawn by a baseball team in first place, a pennant race on full blast, one final taste of summer. The group headed to the church is drawn by a free lunch. In the auditorium on the second floor of the church, the folks sit on metal folding chairs at wooden tables, wolfing down sloppy joes and talking about their neighbors, the Detroit Tigers. READ FULL STORY&lt;strong&gt;Ernie Harwell will always be the voice of summer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;By Joe Posnanski&lt;/em&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;I once asked Ernie Harwell why people loved him so. That's a hard question for any person to answer, but it is especially challenging for a man as modest and decent as Ernie Harwell. \"I'm just a failed newspaper man,\" he would say whenever the praise grew too thick.READ FULL STORY&lt;strong&gt;The Courage of Detroit &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;By Mitch Albom&lt;/em&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;This was Christmas night. In the basement of a church off an icy street in downtown Detroit, four dozen homeless men and women sat at tables. The smell of cooked ham wafted from the kitchen. The pastor, Henry Covington, a man the size of two middle linebackers, exhorted the people with a familiar chant.READ FULL STORY&lt;strong&gt;Talk Back&lt;/strong&gt;Let us know if you want to comment on Assigment Detroit or suggest a topic for Sports Illustrated to consider in our ongoing coverage.CNNMoney &amp; Fortune Small Business&lt;strong&gt;How to survive in Detroit:&lt;/strong&gt; The people share candid responses&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Fixers: Detroit's Renaissance man:&lt;/strong&gt; The auto industry won't likely save the city, so people in Detroit need to do it on their own. Phillip Cooley not only runs a $4 million-a-year barbeque business, he's restoring the historic train station.  &lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stopping Detroit's brain drain:&lt;/strong&gt; The city is pushing for new businesses, arts and a revitalized downtown to keep young people in this hard-hit town. &lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More From CNNMoney.com&lt;/strong&gt;Time&lt;strong&gt;Can Detroit Be Retooled -- Before It's Too Late? &lt;/strong&gt;The President's auto task force is imposing a brutal overhaul of U.S. automakers that may include bankruptcy for GM. But the payoff could be huge when car sales rebound. And they will&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For Iraqi Refugees, Detroit is Still a City of Hope: &lt;/strong&gt;Like previous waves of Arabs fleeing violence and political upheaval ? or merely seeking new economic opportunity ? thousands of Iraqis have been arriving in the Detroit Metropolitan Area since 2007&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More From Time.com&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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