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SECONDTHOUGHTS.COM E-commerce may be the greatest thing since the Hula-Hoop, but every once in a while you buy something online that doesn't quite live up to your expectations. That's why Mail Boxes Etc., the postal-services chain, is launching Return.com a website designed to make it easier to send back those disappointing products. Return.com will not only expedite the process and track the progress of your package online; if you bought the product from a participating retailer, it will refund your money on the spot, electronically...
...after is a win. He's not a fluid player, but unpredictably jerky, his arms everywhere at once, his feet in the same place for only a millisecond. Then he makes the swift shot or the quick pass, or he's above the rim crashing the ball through the hoop--as he did in game three against the Raptors--with grimacing passion. If only the FedEx guy delivered with such drama...
...social situations, Sprewell has always had a disposition to solitude. His parents divorced when he was young, and he moved around a lot. Back home in Milwaukee, in high school, he says, "I was to myself until I played basketball." He didn't actually play organized hoops until his senior year. For Sprewell the NBA was the goal of somewhat fanciful--or incredibly prescient--career planning. "My girlfriend [at the time] was pregnant with my oldest daughter, so I needed to go to college," he recalls. "The best way for me to get there was basketball or football...
...forcefulness, strong build and deep, soulful eyes. (Danes has called him "one of the most beautiful men I've ever seen.") He's wrapped shooting on acclaimed Japanese auteur Takeshi Kitano's first American crime film, Brother, and this week stars in the new Love & Basketball, a $15 million hoop-dreams romance produced by Spike Lee's company. For Epps, Love & Basketball is his shot at big-time stardom. "I look at Denzel and Wesley, Cuba and Will, and figure it must be lonely at the top for those guys right now," he says, laughing as he points his heavily...
...Imagine a sculpture four feet taller than this hoop," McVearry says. That's the size of the David sculpture. The young sculptors are barely the height of the figure's knee...