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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...
...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...
...Oscars (Russell Crowe’s performance in A Beautiful Mind outshines Penn’s) and may not even get a decent showing at the box office but, to its credit, it manages to portray a mentally challenged person in an entertaining yet dignified manner. It’s true that the protagonist and the schmaltzy movie he leads find wisdom in Beatles lyrics, but hey, nobody’s perfect...
...Veteran’s Day letter to Harvard’s cadets in the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), University President Lawrence H. Summers said he admired the way the students were serving their country. Since then, he has questioned the “unorthodox” manner in which Harvard cadets receive funding and has made a personal appeal to the editors of Harvard’s yearbook to include ROTC in this year’s edition. ROTC—originally banished from campus during the Vietnam War—has been barred since 1994 because the military?...
...Democrats, Bush even made compromising noises about farm policy, the environment, ensuring broader home ownership and helping charities help others - but he also promised with some fire that his budget deficits would be "small and short-term, so long as Congress restrains spending and acts in a fiscally responsible manner." And while Bush declared his economic policy to be sum-up-able in just one seemingly agreeable word - "jobs" - you could tell by the crowd, now divided between steroidal Republicans and teeth-clenching Democrats, that it's going to be a long fight ahead. (None of that, however, explains...