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Predictably, there is something of a pork-rind backlash. Some fans grumble that the modern speedways, charging more than $100 for the best tickets, are driving out the down-home folks who helped build NASCAR in the first place. But driver Darrell Waltrip, a three-time Winston Cup winner and a 24-year veteran of the sport, insists there is still room for all kinds of fans. "You can sit in the infields and be rowdy, or you can sit up in the stands and be a gentleman," says Waltrip. And either way, revel in the noise...
...VIDEO FOR HER NEW SINGLE, Ironic, singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette is seen riding in a car, singing to herself. Literally to herself. Through trick photography, there appear to be several Alanis Morissettes. One is an unruly child, another a calm "good" sister, and in the driver's seat, Morissette is also the attentive parent--one eye on the road, one eye on the rear-view mirror to keep watch over the kids. It's a charming clip and an apt metaphor for Morissette's career. As a teen star in her native Canada, she played the part of the well...
...joke/ You took me for a child/ You took a long hard look at my ass/ And then played golf for a while," it's as startling as Chelsea Clinton with a Mohawk. Morissette's anguished, sometimes screechy voice is the sound of postadolescent independence. She's in the driver's seat...
...city is totally on edge right now." Tensions ratcheted even higher Monday as an Arab-American smashed his car into a bus stop, killing one woman before two bystanders shot and killed him. It's not known whether police will charge the two men who opened fire on the driver, who apparently had lost control of his car and tried to brake. Despite the bombings, Beyer notes that the majority of Israelis support a continuation of the peace process: "According to a new poll released Monday, two thirds of Israelis supported the Oslo peace agreement a couple of weeks...
What is driving Driver's Mart and the others is in part a desire to Simonize a business stained by imputations of high-pressure tactics and low-rent ethics. The bigger reason is profits. The used-car trade is now the fastest-growing segment of the automobile market, largely because of consumer resistance to rising new-car prices and the brisk turnover in the booming car-leasing business, which accounts for 32% of all new-vehicle transactions. About six of every 10 cars and trucks sold nowadays are secondhand, and given the deep discounting of automakers on pristine models...