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...going on around him. We laugh both at the joke and at the total outlandishess of what he has just done. When he drives a taxi at sickening speed through Central Park (not Park Drive, but the park itself), we are not so much surprised as fulfilled. As the cab careens through the park, his sidekick asks, "Are you trying to hit these people?", McClane snaps back, "No'! Well...maybe that mime." We see that through all the terrorist incidents, beatings and domestic troubles, John McClane has not lost his spirit...
...covered perhaps 80 km the first day. The adults whispered their worries to one another: Were the Russians catching up? The children slept much of the time, or perhaps pretended to. Once in a while, one of us was allowed up front in the cab. When my turn came, I sat between the driver and another soldier and on top of a bright yellow leather case, the kind German kids used to carry schoolbooks; this one was filled with grenades. A rack under the windshield held two rifles with the troopers' helmets hung over the muzzles. Every time the truck...
...other arrests in connection with the bombing, CNN said three men of Middle Eastern extraction were being questioned about the bombing. In New York, a law enforcement source told The Associated Press that one of the three men identified by CNN, Asad Siddiqy of New York City, is a cab driver in the New York borough of Queens...
...accumulated class hours, my confidence grew. I executed right and left turns with skill and merged with grace. I even began to develop some of the belligerent driving techniques I had long witnessed in friends, parents and cab drivers. Rudy, my friendly instructor, assured me that the test would be no problem...
DIED. BERNARD CORNFELD, 67, financier; from pneumonia; in London. Cornfeld rose from the driver's seat of a Brooklyn cab to the helm of a financial empire. But his high-living, high-stakes universe evaporated in 1970 after his mutual-fund company went public, leading to a collapse that cost Cornfeld and his investors millions and landed the smooth-talking fallen star in prison. He was ultimately acquitted of embezzlement...