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...Messianic community” believes in restorationism, a return to the primitive Jewish and Christian traditions. About 20 years ago, Elbert Spriggs and his wife founded the group as a testament to their God—a God who made feelings of loneliness, alienation and self-loathing disappear. The result was an organization based on trust and the increasing purity of coming generations...
...difficult to believe that Pomey and Gomes would have done what they supposedly did if they knew what awaited them after the purchases and the parties—namely, if they are found guilty, a decade behind cold steel bars. After all, $100,000 doesn’t just disappear, and they seem to have made little effort to disguise the theft. Clearly then, something must have convinced them to throw ethics to the wind and embezzle the $100,000 or so into their personal bank accounts. No doubt they got off on their glittering social calendars and their circle...
...impossible to find anyone on Capitol Hill these days opposed to new protections for 401(k)s. No members of Congress want voters to think they don't care about Enron employees who watched their retirement savings disappear into a black hole of creative accounting. Talking of how his mother-in-law lost $8,000 in Enron stock, President Bush put together a Cabinet team to study the issue. Senators Barbara Boxer and Jon Corzine are pushing a bill that would limit the amount of an employer's stock in its 401(k) plan and ease restrictions on how soon...
...Just days after the attacks Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair, possibly the most sycophantic celebrity magazine in the world, made it clear that there would be a new standard of cool. "Things that are considered fringe and frivolous are going to disappear," he said...
...Pipes,” a high school graduate working in a pipe factory discovers that if he bends a pipe in a specific manner, marbles will roll into it and then disappear. The protagonist—one of the many characters in Keret’s stories who feel like an outsider and simply want to disappear—makes a giant pipe in the same shape, climbs inside, and ends up in heaven, which he describes as “simply a place for people who were genuinely unable to be happy on earth...