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Cats have nine lives. So why shouldn't MICHAEL JORDAN, coolest cat ever to play for the NBA, make another comeback? After slyly toying with fans and the cash-strapped league, His Airness has signed a two-year contract with his Washington Wizards. This is probably the first time in the history of the NBA that the temporary resignation of a part owner and director of basketball operations has caused a run on season tickets. The questions abound: Can he play? Can he play well enough to lift a team that has made the play-offs exactly once...
...reaches of the walls display black and white photographs of poets, donated by the poets themselves. The floor no longer creaks; during the mid-80s, Harvard University took ownership of the property. A Grolier customer who was involved in the selling of the property wrote a provision into the contract stipulating that Harvard had to redo the floor and paint the ceiling before it could purchase the property...
...political spectrum is inverted, but equally rigid: The hard-nosed right of the punk movement, the purists, hold all of the principles we’ve just mentioned to be self-evident truths, and would sooner stop listening to music altogether than listen to music that has breached this contract...
...about patriotism. As a journalist I don't believe in flag pins, and as a soldier I'm not overly zealous. I signed a part-time employment contract to help the U.S. Army manage and restrict the flow information for its own benefit, and suffice it to say I've had no regrets about the arrangement - it's fun. For me, it's not morality - we're at war and each combatant is using the means available to it, and I happen to work weekends for the heavy favorite...
...Because even if Americans returned to the skies in full force tomorrow, tighter security means fewer daily flights, and fewer daily flights mean less profit from fixed assets like planes, routes and contract employees. The industry not only took an almost unimaginable one-time hit on Sept. 11, it entered an era where the flying business is even less profitable than it was before. Fundamental changes will have to be made, or the bailouts will never...