but you have to admit, dennis, that opening line is quite a laugh. i never realized that jfk was a race car driver:
>The violent death of Dale Earnhardt hit >the sport of professional auto
racing
> harder than anything in memory since the assassination of John Kennedy.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 7:40 AM
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Subject: HST on NASCAR Death
Dr. Thompson doesn't have the snap he used to have, but I found this pretty decent -- certainly better than most sportswriters' accounts (though I'm considered a bastard of the form). A little cultural crit for today.
DP
> Death in the afternoon
> http://espn.go.com/page2/s/thompson/010220.html