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...first surprise in Bristol is the Woodstock-on-wheels scene. Race fans converge from hundreds of miles away, arriving in motor homes as early as Thursday for parties, concerts, qualifying rounds and a junior-circuit Saturday race called the Busch Series. The local newspaper estimates that race fans will drop nearly $70 million into local pockets, and the money starts flowing at a Friday-night fund raiser for local children's charities. About 300 people have come to eyeball their racing heroes and bid on auction items like hats, uniforms and a Jeff Gordon jacket...
...notion that the drivers' 750-h.p. days at the track would be followed by even faster nights ends up a wreck too. There's a traveling ministry on the NASCAR circuit, and drivers and their families attend Sunday services in a makeshift chapel near the pits. Gordon and his wife Brooke, a former Miss Winston, are often the first two people at Saturday-night Bible study. On race day she'll give him a verse from Scripture, and he'll tape it to his steering wheel...
...dweebs. Unlike their evangelical parents, who often defined themselves as outsiders, today's campus Christians, says Barnard College religion professor Randall Balmer, "are willing to engage the culture on its terms. They understand what's going on and speak the language." Teen evangelicals have their own rock concert circuit, complete with stage diving; their own clothing lines, like Witness Wear; and in the omnipresent wwjd ("What would Jesus do?") bracelet, their own breakthrough accessory...
From 1995-1996, Ferrell clerked for Judge Lawrence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The next year, he clerked for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court. As a student at HLS, Ferrell was the recipient of the Sears Prize, awarded to the two law students with the highest grade point average in each of their first two years there...
...matter what hand is dealt to Harvard, the Bulldogs will not go down without a fight. Boasting one of the top programs on the circuit, Fresno State is a force to reckon with...