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...rules were in place to slow the cars, but the changes seemed to be making the racing more dangerous. An earlier crash looked like an Armageddon of a wreck: 19 cars careering around, smashing into one another, Tony Stewart's Pontiac soaring through the air, ripping the hood off another car, metal clanging, a 16-minute red flag to clean up the mess--and only a bum shoulder, Stewart's, as a result. Then on the last turn of the last lap, Earnhardt's famous black No. 3 Chevy Monte Carlo plowed--thud--into the wall and drifted back...
...party without invitations. Phyllis and her son-in-law noticed a man rush to get a table near them as the party was breaking up and the band was about to play. He seemed almost creepy, sitting and staring until two more men joined him. About then, Teresa Hood showed up in her leopard-print pants. A county employee, aerobics teacher and part-time fashion model, she had worked on the campaign for a short time. But she had not been around too much lately. Phyllis had never thought much of her; nor did others on the campaign...
...police have talked to Hood, who has changed her phone and pager numbers several times recently, out of habit, she says, not because she is hiding. She says on that Friday night, Derwin Brown talked to her about handling his press. She says she does not understand why the Browns or others would suggest she knows more than she is telling. "How could I signal the killer? How do you do that? I don't know anything about killers," she says. She says she admired Derwin as well as his wife. And even though Hood was busy with charity work...
...distant memory. Now Greenspan is looking for a hard bounce-back, and that takes not only cheaper money but good psychology. And with the economy - two thirds of which is in consumers' trembling hands - not only screeching to a halt but starting to spew smoke from under the hood, three quarters of a point looks like the only shot in the arm in Dr. Greenspan's medicine cabinet...
Instead she tried to jolly me out of Grinch-hood by suggesting (in a Cindy Lou Who voice) that most gifts aren't bad enough to destroy a relationship. She points to my brother Joe's Steak Lovers' Kit. "All those accessories," she says. "And he knew you like steak. Do you think he was trying to be thoughtful...