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Then the motors start, and "you are into what you instinctively do." You follow the pace car, reach the green flag and rev to 190 m.p.h.--there's no speedometer, you don't need one. "You are sitting right on top of the exhaust. There are vibrations all through your rear end, up through your hands." The race...
...codes of NASCAR: first, that racing is what Pettys and Allisons and Earnhardts do, come what may; and second, that NASCAR is a Big Business that doesn't stop for one man, even though it's the man who helped make it big. So they planned to rev the engines and drop the green flag Sunday. No one in the vast, grieving NASCAR family felt that Ironhead Earnhardt, Ironheart's boy, would have wanted it any other...
...word for a cruel practice that has dogged Haiti since it won independence from France in 1804. Why does a black republic--whose colonial population was composed almost entirely of plantation slaves--still tolerate child bondage? "There was no value placed on children during the slavery era," says the Rev. Miguel Jean Baptiste, a Roman Catholic priest who runs the Maurice Sixto shelter in Port-au-Prince for restaveks who have run away or whose owners allow them a little schooling each day. "Unfortunately, we've carried that mentality with us today." Indeed, it is not uncommon to hear...
Transfer those opposites to a man, and there's old Bill-- good as gold, one day a week. Like the Rev. Jesse Jackson, like Harlem's former Congressman, the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., like Gabriel Grimes, the preacher father in James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain, he sins and repents, and then comes Monday...
...University's leading religions figures, the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals and minister of Memorial Church, has not been invited to participate in the three-day long conference scheduled for early April...