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...South Carolina, who was one of the few women fans when she started attending NASCAR races 21 years ago. Female participation has surged in part because the sport has become more family oriented, says Janie Brown, who teaches a course on NASCAR's business strategy at North Carolina's Elon College. Modern speedways set aside parking space for campers, and some offer alcohol-free family sections in the stands. But a lot of women with keys to the family station wagon, RV or muscle car have found that they love the sport for its own sake. Says Anderson: "We used...
When Dawn O'Day, a New York homemaker, saw a TV report last week on commuter- airline safety, she got worried -- and then she got on the phone. Her daughter Misty, a junior at Elon College in North Carolina, was due to fly one leg of her trip back from school last Tuesday on a small commuter-airline turboprop. O'Day canceled those reservations and arranged for Misty to take a limousine from Greensboro to Raleigh and then catch a jet home. Says O'Day: "I told my husband, 'I don't want her on that plane...
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...Elon Dershowitz said last night he was recently asked by convicted hotel magnate Leona Helmsly, his father's client, if he will make a movie about her trial...
Attending the screening and, presumably, the party to follow, were such Harvard dignitaries as Robert Nozick, Porter professor of philosophy, and Alan A. Stone, Touroff-Gleuck professor of law and psychiatry. Dershowitz was also there with his son Elon, who co-produced the film...