Also added: billionaire auto parts man Shahid Khan, who joined the NFL fraternity in January after his purchase of the Jacksonville Jaguars.

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Police said they linked Wade after the fact to a high-profile car theft in March 2011 in which a man rappelled from the roof of a San Francisco auto dealership into the showroom and roared off in a canary-yellow Lamborghini Spyder Gallardo.

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Mr. JOHN MCWHORTER (Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute): Well, you know, there was a grand period from the '20s into the 1960s when it was possible for a black man, or sometimes a woman, with no education to have a good solid job in an auto plant.

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