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...Traction-control systems that prevented rear wheelspin are banned, while gearboxes have to last four consecutive races...
Ecclestone, a former driver and team owner, began to exert control over F1 in the late 1970s, when he got a lock on the sale of the sport's TV rights, its most valuable asset. In 2005 he sold most of his stake in Formula One Management to private equity firm CVC Capital Partners. But thanks to a complicated ownership structure, he's still the straw that stirs the drink. Ecclestone alone makes the big TV, sponsorship and track deals that keep F1's cash gushing. He rests his legacy on the numbers, and they are indeed impressive, not least...
None of this bodes well for the U.S. Ratcheting up indiscriminate sanctions will likely close the window for diplomacy, leaving Obama in the same position as Bush placed himself. But Tehran's tendency toward confrontation might lead to the situation spiraling out of control. Military confrontation, which no one in the Obama Administration favors, may become unavoidable...
...with Koreans trying to swallow each other up," he writes in "Booze," venting authorial indignation, as he often does, in the guise of one of his characters. In this case, it's through the thoughts of an upright clerk who slowly loses his moral compass while jockeying for control of a distillery, and the tenancy of its grand courtyard home, after the Japanese owner flees following liberation. The titular confidence man of "The Toad" is less sympathetic a creature. A perfectly satanic villain - a man of wealth and taste with oiled hair, a serge suit and breath that reeks...
...slaughter didn’t stop when the first period closed. After controlling the puck and shutting the Big Red down for the final 13 minutes of the first half, it seemed like the Crimson was starting to regain control of the game. But the onslaught was only beginning, as three goals in three minutes dashed any hope Harvard might have had for a Frozen Four berth...