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...cathartic joy of winning the Beanpot was double-edged for me, a cool sophomore (what other kind is there?) at the time. It was refreshing to see the "old boys," the kids who everyone thought had all the advantages, climb out of their BMWs and hold their ground against the tough guys from across the Rivah--you know, the kind of guys who say, "What the----are you looking at, punk?" if they think you're staring at them in a bar. The setting was also refreshing. It was fitting that such a great athletic moment for Harvard would take...
...both of which are largely free in Europe. The net result is that many Europeans end up with somewhat fatter disposable incomes than Americans but they also face generally much higher prices. So how do they do it? How do they afford the rows of doubled-parked Mercedes and BMWs and the expensive smart clothes that are so conspicuous to visitors...
...buyers are individualists," continues Baumgarten, "the architects, advertising people and journalists." One reason for the rising demand is the immediate delivery offered on most American cars, unlike the long waits for Audis, BMWs and Mercedes...
Modeling themselves on Uruguay's Tupamaro guerrillas, Bonnie und Clyde set about fighting society by assembling an arsenal of guns, robbing banks and stealing fast cars (they preferred BMWs). According to Ruhland's testimony, the gang lacked neither ideas nor ambition. At one point, they planned to break into a Bundeswehr arms depot at Munsterlager; another time, they hoped to free captured members of their group either by staging a prison raid with a tiny homemade helicopter or by kidnaping Chancellor Willy Brandt and using him in a prisoner exchange...
...warmth of spring, the Mercedes, BMWs and Opels streaming along the Autobahnen have to dodge ever more midget cars of workers, piled high with blanket rolls and suitcases, headed for weekend campsites along the Rhine. The West German Hausfrau roams through gleaming supermarkets to choose such exotic imports as avocado pears and Chinese litchi nuts, along with the regular order of Wurst. Her leather-jacketed, blue-jeaned offspring, the Americanized German youth, seeks his fun in ice cream shops or "Jazz Bar'' record stores, or atop his own noisy motorbike...