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...career anymore.' TOM SUARTO, a retired autoworker whose son will lose his factory job next month. Since 1912, four generations of Suarto's family have worked for General Motors...
...seven weeks into the new year. Do you know where your resolution is? If you're like millions of Americans, you probably vowed to lose weight, quit smoking and drink less in 2009. You kicked off January with a commitment to long-term well-being--until you came face-to-face with a cheeseburger. You spent a bundle on a shiny new gym pass. Turns out, it wasn't reason enough for you to actually...
...they were for describing the world around us. In "Paraguay," for example, he employs the language of industrial production as art criticism: "Sheet art is generally dried in smoke and is dark brown in color. Bulk art is air-dried, and changes color in particular historical epochs." (Barthelme quotes lose some of their magic out of context, like a colorful shell removed from a tide pool.) In Snow White--to which the New Yorker devoted almost an entire issue in 1967--the heroine sighs, "Oh I wish there were some words in the world that were not the words...
...avail. Heading home empty-handed, the day only gets worse when he finds out his “baby mom’s done changed locks.” Jobless, broke, and unlucky in love, our defeated hero sadly concludes, “Seems like I was born to lose,” leaving us to wonder how he’ll manage to keep his profession as a rapper, let alone an office job. —Roxanne J. Fequiere
...Guruge turned her match around in the final three sets.“I was just making too many mistakes in the first two sets and went into the third telling myself that I just can’t afford to make any more or I’ll lose the match,” she said. “I started playing deeper and safer, and it just came to me.”Opening the third set, Guruge came out swinging, pounding winners all across the court—and pounding her opponent with an errant forehand that...