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...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...
...airness, Michael Jordan, decided last summer to reflate his 38-year-old self for NBA career No. 3, he risked becoming a basketball sideshow, a one-man Harlem Globetrotter surrounded by a bunch of clowns called the Washington Wizards, a team whose only trick was to make itself disappear come play-off time. "He is not going to dominate night in and night out," warned his buddy, the noted hoop philosopher Charles Barkley. "I don't think they will make the play-offs." Neither Jordan nor the Wiz did anything to dispel that notion, dropping 10 of their first...
...However, I was dismayed by Krauthammer's triumphalist rhetoric, which at times approached jingoism. Such language can only fuel the still smoldering fires of hatred of the U.S. Our bombs have changed no one's world view but our own. The Taliban soldiers who switched sides will again disappear into the mountains. The Arab street is quiet only because those who filled it a few weeks ago are home nursing their wounds. For a small but important minority of the Islamic world, America will always be the Great Satan. Afghanistan was not the end but the beginning. We are going...
...expects the $582 billion direct-mail industry to disappear in the crisis. But a survey by the Direct Marketing Association following the reports of anthrax letters showed a third of all consumers were treating their mail with new suspicion. Many companies that relied on mail to reach customers are finding alternatives, from telemarketing to sophisticated new Internet techniques...
...Enron for his failed 2000 Senate re-election bid in Missouri. Then the entire office of the U.S. Attorney in Houston recused itself because too many of its prosecutors had personal ties to Enron executives-or to angry workers who have been fired or have seen their life savings disappear...