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First Jordan, then Gretzky, now (maybe) Nakajima. HIROFUMI NAKAJIMA of Kofu, Japan, the undisputed world hot dog-eating champion, may not return to Coney Island July 4 to try to win the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest for a third time. The 131-lb. "Black Hole of Kofu" first won the competition in 1997, when he defeated 360-lb. Ed ("The Animal") Krachie of New York City by downing 24 1/2 dogs (plus buns). "At first they booed me, probably because I am a skinny little man," says Nakajima, who soon became a crowd favorite. A Nathan...
Modi related his early Harvard days cowering in his "Canaday cellblock," which he called the "black hole...
...Shakir, who had just 11 hits--10 of them singles--on the year, and never batted outside the nine-hole in the order, slapped a two-run single to center for the winning runs...
...sense of dispossession [that resulted from his illegitimate birth] left a hole in his psyche that he has forever after been trying to fill," Frady says...
Horn flipped the book open. Our Life was actually a dictionary. A hole carved in the depths of its thick pages held a box the perfect size for a ring. Page 1603 was the W's. Page 1627 was the Y's. Page...