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...Hassidic computer repairman to say the Shema is a classic of the columnists' form.) Even Diamond's accounts of life with cancer can be darkly funny as well as harrowing. But as with all such collections, those stories, written to be read on the Tube or at the lunch counter, can't quite add up to a book you're likely to read straight through. No matter, because the first six chapters alone are worth the cover price. Diamond's brutal debunking of alternative therapies such as homeopathy, reflexology and herbalism doesn't dwell on the scientific particulars...
...place of absolutely no pretension, and I like that. It is a place that employs a lot of single moms, and is a stop for truckers bound for Canada craving a hot meal. We fix our toothpick dispenser with a bang on the counter and carry hot plates stacked up our arms, while trying to soothe the extremely overworked short-order cook. We use violent metaphors like “hurricane” and “slamming” for understaffed busy moments—common to the 11 p.m.-7 a.m. crew, which is also the smallest (Scotty?...
...State Department over how to keep the investigation on track, one that has grown from a tiff into a "monster turf battle," according to an insider. State accuses the FBI of creating and deepening a rift with the Yemenis with clumsy demands for access. FBI officials counter that they want to make a case that will meet the rules of evidence of U.S. courts. "We are going to do it the same way we do it at home," says a U.S. official. "We're going to educate the host country." There has also been a disagreement over other tactics...
...October 2000, during a visit to the New York Stock Exchange, he had learned that United Technologies Corp.--whose Pratt & Whitney division is another huge enginemaker--planned to buy Honeywell. Within 45 minutes, on the phone from his car, Welch had lined up his board to make a counter-offer. Two days later he had Honeywell in the bag; it would be the largest ever merger between two industrial companies. Welch delayed his retirement to oversee the integration of GE and Honeywell--and to set the capstone on his legendary career...
...Disney has spent months trying to counter this attitude. Dozens of young workers in a chaotic Tokyo office dart from desk to desk with armloads of flyers and press kits. A woman digs through a mountainous pile of movie stills; visitors mill under a massive close-up of Affleck. This is the war room, campaign headquarters for Disney's high-stakes launch. Pearl Harbor's budget?one of the biggest in history?is more than double the industry average and means the movie has to earn $400 million worldwide just to break even. But in Japan the company...