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...father-son bond, but Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s move surely would have made his father proud. Sitting next to his sister and with other family members in the audience, Earnhardt, Jr., announced Thursday what many in NASCAR circles felt never would be allowed to happen - NASCAR's most popular driver would be leaving the company that bears his father's name, Dale Earnhardt Inc. (DEI), as a driver at the end of the 2007 campaign...
...elder Earnhardt, who drove for Richard Childress Racing for the last 17 years of his life, started DEI in 1980 to control the marketing and merchandising side of his name and image. He was the first driver to truly take command of his business affairs and gained a reputation for being as calculating and ruthless in his dealings off the track as he was racing on it. Dale Earnhardt, Sr., wanted control over his affairs...
...have come to think of teenagers as a breed apart - ask any parent of one. But as a driver of culture, as a consumer niche, as a state of contrariness, the subspecies known as teenager wasn't even identified until World War II, the point at which British music writer Jon Savage's fascinating new book, Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture 1875-1945, ends. His 576-page trawl through the social commentary, memoirs and reportage of Europe and the U.S. in those decades shows how all the indicators of modern youth culture - the generational antagonism, the moral panics...
...Whitney, who is the son of a preacher and has been a vocal Bush supporter, has been a lightning rod for critics, who have accused him of racism and homophobia. He's quick to tell me about his gay tour bus driver ("one of my best friends...
...refusal of the international community and Israel to deal with elected Hamas officials. On the eve of the Jewish holiday Passover, April 2, a rebel Hamas cell drove a truck loaded with 220 lbs. of explosives into the center of Tel Aviv. The bomb failed--probably because the driver lost his nerve, according to a military source--but it could have been a mega terrorist attack, killing hundreds of Israelis. Had it succeeded, the attack almost certainly would have induced a massive Israeli retaliation, perhaps triggering a third intifadeh--which Hamas hard-liners openly say is what they intend...