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Alcohol, of course, plays a part too. In the NFL, serious tailgaters fuel up before they even enter the stadium. Many teams are sponsored in part by a brewer, and beer sales make up a significant percentage of a stadium's concession revenues--a spigot that teams are not eager to cut off. Still, to head off trouble, most basketball and football venues stop selling beer by the end of the third quarter (as does the Palace in Auburn Hills...
...ouster. (The last time anyone can remember a Senate leader visiting his opposite's state to rail against him was in 1900.) President Bush, who personally persuaded Thune to make a losing but whisker-close Senate run in 2002, made sure that money flowed freely from the G.O.P. spigot; despite Daschle's incumbency and name recognition, Thune raised $12 million to his opponent's $18 million...
When Krause and I met a few hours before After the Fall's opening performance, I wondered how one actor channels so much pain without letting it sweep him away. How do you turn the emotional spigot on and off when pure bile is running through it? Krause has two answers. One is the practical response of a mature dad who grew up in Minnesota (Krause turns 39 this week and has a 2 1/2-year-old son, Roman): "Sometimes I do what I do just because it's my job." And like any job, getting up at 4 a.m. to shoot...
Will the price of gas ever come down? Crude-oil futures, spurred by worries that Russian oil giant Yukos will turn off the spigot, last week exceeded a record $43 per bbl. That's not a high in real terms--oil reached nearly $80 per bbl. in inflation-adjusted dollars after the 1979 Iranian revolution. But it's enough to cause concern that pump prices, already up 50¢ per gal. this year, won't drop much soon. Consumers should get a small break in the fall, analysts say, when demand will ease as the summer driving season ends. Paul Horsnell...
Chavez--who faces a national recall referendum on Aug. 15--warned the U.S. this year that he'll turn off the oil spigot if the Bush Administration threatens to invade Venezuela over either politics or oil. U.S. officials dismiss that notion as absurd, but Rodriguez echoes the concern: "Many people here fear what happened in Iraq could happen to Venezuela." Still, Rodriguez, an attorney and a classical-music lover, emphasizes that Venezuela "doesn't want price volatility" and wants to continue being the U.S.'s most reliable supplier. "There is no contradiction between a strong alliance with OPEC," he says...