Word: bmws
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...know the car you are driving is something special when the parking valet compliments you on it. After all, this guy sees and drives everything. So even though the Manhattan garage where I parked for an hour last Thursday afternoon was packed with Lexuses, BMWs and other luxury vehicles, I knew the attendant was right on when he commented that the $30,000 Ford Escape Hybrid I was driving was a "nice...
Victims of oppression seldom have a chance to face their tormentors. But Ahmad Jamal gets the opportunity nearly every day. He can usually spot them by their cars - late-model Toyota Avalons, Peugeots, Mercedes and BMWs issued to Baathist leaders, with Iraqi license plates. These former officials from the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, the mukhabarat (Iraqi secret police) and other parts of the Iraqi state apparatus cruise Amman's streets, roam its malls and enjoy its restaurants. "Two years ago, they brought us misery," Jamal says. "Now they're living it up in exile in Amman and we have...
Cathy and George Long, however, believe brand doesn't matter. They rent Hondas, BMWs, whatever their mood dictates. For them, riding offers a chance to shed their conservative identities on the back roads of Arizona, stopping at taverns with pickup trucks parked outside and country music blaring from the jukebox...
...December, as Iraqis have begun to earn and spend far more money than ever. Baghdad's stores--depleted by the embargo--now have stacks of televisions, microwave ovens and Dell computers, and satellite dishes are propped on the balconies of most Baghdad apartment blocks. The roads are jammed with BMWs and Mercedes freshly imported from Dubai. In February another item banned by Saddam--the cell phone--finally hit the streets...
...world is gone now and though kids still write Southie on their backpacks in pen ink and claim neighborhood allegiance, it all feels somehow inauthentic. I know it’s over because of the kids without accents and the BMWs on East Sixth St. but was reminded of it when I rode under the interstate at West Fourth and over a broken bottle of Corona Extra, not the first one that I’d seen in the gutters and alleys around the neighborhood...