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...Goodman) is a mechanic turned car designer. Mom (Susan Sarandon) is the family's emotional center, a font of dewy wisdom. Older brother Rex (Scott Porter) is a champion racer who confides some of his Zen driving secrets to his younger brother Speed before mysteriously disappearing after a car crash. Years later, Speed (Emile Hirsch) is ready to carry on the Racer tradition, to win the big rallies against some formidable drivers and a rigged system...
...dollar terms, it was far from the biggest player: more than 7,000 people affected by the attacks have received over $12 billion, most of which came from the federally financed Victim Compensation Fund. But the $25 million Survivors' Fund, formed to help those affected by the crash of American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon, may be the best model for assisting victims of a mass-casualty disaster...
America's first great piano virtuoso was a darkly handsome, intense young New Yorker named William Kapell. He had it all: a staggering technique, passion and an artistic instinct that pierced to the heart of every piece. In 1953 he died in a plane crash at 31. All that remained were his legend and a handful of recordings. Then in 2004 a trove of new Kapell performances surfaced, recorded at home by Australian department-store salesman Roy Preston from radio broadcasts of Kapell's final tour. A selection of those recordings is now being released in a two-disc...
...capture, all three men had been working for Northrop Grumman, a defense contractor, which continues to pay the families their salaries. Former Grumman pilots have criticized the company for using single-engine planes over such dangerous turf. In March 2003, three Grumman employees died in a single-engine-plane crash during a search for the hostages. (The U.S. now requires that twin-engine aircraft be used there.) But the hostages' families ask why the Bush Administration didn't provide more military backup on the contractors' Colombian missions. "Did they really never think this sort of thing could happen?" asks Gonsalves...
...After ABC's much criticized debate last week, Clinton began attacking Obama for complaining (as did much of the media) that the questions focused heavily on gaffes and gotcha politics. In a commercial aired last weekend, over images of Pearl Harbor, the Cold War, the 1929 stock market crash, the Cuban Missile crisis and Osama bin Laden, Clinton reprised Harry Truman's famous line, "If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen." In response, Obama was as forceful as he has ever been in the campaign, but some observers wonder if his show of toughness came...