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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
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...