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...Need the Eggs may nab some buyers through its more-than-explicit promise to tell a lot of Woody Allen jokes, apparently all the ones Jacobs can remember. The hint in the title--which refers to the curtain line of Allen's best-received work, Annie Hall--is amplified on the back cover, where the paragraph containing the line appears in toto. It is also to be found on page 114, again in full, and at numerous other points in the text. If the reader prefers excerpts from Love and Death, or Bananas, or the early nightclub routines, or just...
...Swiss nab a fugitive...
Senior Alex Seaver game Columbia's Gary Jacobs a one-set head start, but Harvard's fourth seed rebounded to nab the match...
...free, sophomore sprinter Mike Miao switched on the afterburner for the final 50 yards and just passed Columbia's Tony Corbisie to nab the race with a 1:38.56 clocking missing NCAA qualifying times by 5/100 of a second Sophomore Courtney Roberts placed fifth...
...that deserted marginal economic areas for one of the zones would receive massive tax breaks. Meanwhile, thousands of workers in the business's old neighborhood would be thrust onto unemployment rolls. The zone plan guarantees no new jobs or job training--making it all too easy for businesses to nab giant tax breaks by hiring a few residents of the zone as custodial workers. Indeed, housing and other social service budgets that largely support America's inner cities would continue to shrink or disappear--making any hope for urban revival through the zone plan dim at best...