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...head in the toilet, without my car, but on paper I looked good so my Mom could deny it. I was in the top five percent of my class, I was the editor in chief of the school paper, the student council secretary. I burned out my friends. I woke up one morning at college, with vomit on the floor, and a call from some guy who had my bag and would only give it back if I gave him $500. That's when I got the AA number. I wrote down the address, the time of a meeting...
...bike with bits of everything they had. My friend was supposed to come over but he bailed on me. My Mom was at her boyfriend's. I sat on the couch, alone, sipping, and thought I would feel something right away. I drank the whole thing and woke up in the hospital. Even after it almost killed me, I definitely wanted to have it again...
...chose him: Because of the two words with which PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem woke Martin at 7:25 A.M. Oregon time: "You prevailed." Because Martin's legal fight to ride a cart in PGA Tour events brought lawyers to the very core of sport - the concept of the "level playing field." And because, having persuaded the highest court in the land to force the PGA to allow him to compete in a motorized cart other pro golfers aren't allowed to use, all under the letter of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Martin still managed to deny the existence...
...than a shadow. He has a red light in his stomach and his eyes are red, too." Did you see him? "No." Did anyone? asks Gogia. A young factory worker called Navesh Kumar is pushed forward and Gogia follows him to the rooftop where he was sleeping. "When I woke up," Navesh relates, "there was this black, shadowy thing. He saw me looking at him and jumped there." He points to a roof three houses away. Did he jump or run? asks the police chief. Navesh falters and summons his sister-in-law, who says she got a better glimpse...
Some business deals fit the times so perfectly they help to define their eras. The world woke up to Japan's intention to conquer the global economy when a Japanese company purchased Rockefeller Center in 1989. Internet upstart AOL signaled the rise of digital by buying last century's media giant, Time Warner, owner of this magazine. China and Taiwan now have their epochal deal, signed by scions of wealth and privilege from either side of the Taiwan Strait. Winston Wong, the estranged son of Taiwan's most colorful executive, has gone into business with Jiang Mianheng, the low-profile...