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With clean-cut sponsors like Tide, the U.S. Army and Nextel fueling NASCAR's multibillion-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...
...heart, Harvard is a community, not another multibillion-dollar corporation. Real communities have values, ideals, standards. These days, it is student activism that holds Harvard accountable to those ideals that are too easily forgotten...
Killer instinct: that multibillion-dollar deal...
...just one part of an election very much defined by U.S.-related issues. One is whether Ecuador will keep letting the U.S. use the Manta air base on the Pacific coast for drug surveillance flights - or if Ecuador will even continue to assist Washington's drug war, particularly the multibillion-dollar Plan Colombia. (Correa says he would not renew the Manta treaty when it expires...
Nevertheless, even a multibillion-dollar chain like Zara needs ideas. And a designer like Nicolas Ghesquière, who has been in fashion's driving seat of late with his razor-sharp focus on silhouette and tailoring, can still turn the business on its head. His buglike silhouette of skinny black legs and poufy miniskirts, first shown last February, has resurfaced on countless other runways this season. Fashion insiders--the people who determine which trends will make it onto department-store shelves or fashion-magazine covers and, eventually, to Zara--need a bad boy to shock them into a new look...