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...dollar engine, stock-car racing's seedy past has been buried beneath the track. Thompson exhumes the sport's Prohibition-era roots in this colorful, meticulously detailed history. Painting NASCAR as "the accidental sport of Southern moonshiners," he recounts wildly entertaining stories of how late-1930s racing pioneers like Lloyd Seay, who was later murdered by his cousin, and "Reckless" Roy Hall, a jailbird, honed their craft during bootlegging runs, dodging the law on dusty Georgia back roads...
...Yahoo's Media Group could use a hit. Company CEO Terry Semel recruited former ABC-TV chairman Lloyd Braun two years ago to help the portal become a serious show biz player, and the Media Group was touted as an incubator for revolutionary new online content. But a series of gaffes ensued: plans to revive a TV pilot called "The Runner" as an interactive game went nowhere, a roving war correspondent and an adventure travel guide failed to click with audiences, and there was even discussion of having a newscast read by puppets. This year, scaling back its ambitious plans...
...starts out icy and is not improved by the arrival of Lars’s ex-lover Wynne (Julia L. Renaud ’09), whose husband has dumped her earlier that day, and the newlywed couple Hal (Simon N. Nicholas ’07) and Sian (Catrin M. Lloyd-Bollard ’08). Paige—with the help of a silent and frighteningly obedient waiter chillingly played by Jeremy R. Steinemann ’08—has engineered a bizarre evening for the group, starting with barely-concealed hostility and escalating into histrionics and violence, hitting...
...Lloyd, a weekly columnist for the FT who previously served as the paper’s Moscow bureau chief, stands by his reporting...
...phone interview from London yesterday, Lloyd said that his article in the paper’s Oct. 9 British edition “did include the positive spin” that Putnam put on his work. And Lloyd’s follow-up Web-exclusive analysis includes seven paragraphs explicating Putnam’s more optimistic third point...