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America is a great country for stories these days, a circus with more attractions (fakirs, fire walkers, Oprahs, snake charmers, holy men, Geraldos) than Kipling's Grand Trunk Road of Hindustan. Life is a funny old raccoon. The raccoon works for the tabloids now but hopes to be a literary genius later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love Is A Catastrophe | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...just come from a tennis tournament in which I had played. It was 11 p.m. As we pulled into the parking lot behind the motel, I noticed a man standing behind the open trunk of his car. I started walking towards the rear entrance of the motel, and the man began to walk behind me as my mother locked the car door. He made me feel uneasy, but I thought to myself, "Jennifer, don't be ridiculous." I was inches from the door when he jumped on top of me and started beating me with a club. I screamed...

Author: By Jennifer M. Rhodes, | Title: More Than Survival | 4/24/1998 | See Source »

Like a teenager after a growth spurt, Nike is a multibillion-dollar monster finding its size awkward. Knight's challenge is to re-create the essence of the outfit he first operated out of the trunk of his car with his college track coach and a bunch of running geeks who would do anything to avoid a real job. But this won't be a jog in the park. Last week the company announced a restructuring that landed heavily on its sports center-cum-headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., where about 250 employees were laid off. "When you grow quickly," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Nike Get Unstuck? | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...Brooklyn, N.Y., a car that had been towed as a scofflaw vehicle was sold at auction. Moments later, a decomposed body wrapped in plastic was discovered in its trunk. Police believe it had been there "a few months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 30, 1998 | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

When we arrived at Harvard, my friend, who was in the cab with me, paid the driver, and we all got out. A split second later the driver pulled away with my bags in the trunk! I was stunned. It took me a minute to realize that all my schoolbooks were in there, not to mention expensive clothes...

Author: By Erika R. Janes, | Title: Next Time, Just Take the T | 3/4/1998 | See Source »

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