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...life story of songwriter Stephin Merritt can be told in three anecdotes: 1) A few years ago, Merritt was getting out of a cab when he was struck on the head by a hailstone the size of a golf ball. He picked up the piece of ice and put it in his freezer, where it remains. 2) As a birthday present, Merritt once decided to give himself isolation. He avoided speaking to another human being for nearly 24 hours, then ventured out to a bookstore and ran smack into his ex-boyfriend. 3) Merritt was browsing in another bookstore when...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers assisted Cambridge Police Department officers in searching for two people who reportedly evaded paying their cab fare. Officers searched the area with negative results...
...EAST OR WILD WEST? "When you're in China," says Hhu Ng, a portfolio manager at the Cundill Group in Vancouver, "you fear for your life sitting in a cab because there's no regard for traffic laws. How much confidence should you have then in China's business laws?" Not much. Corruption is rampant, copyright and patent piracy is a way of life, regulation of the financial markets is murky, and Chinese accounting standards could turn the con men of Enron and WorldCom green with envy. What's more, the Chinese banking system is dominated by the government, with...
...Back in my room in Dunster. My plan to take a cab from the Pit to the River fails because no one would drive me such a short distance...
After the last 72-hour stretch in Tampa with Tipper, O’Mary hopped on a plane to Boston, took a cab to Quincy House, voted and then got right back in a cab to catch his plane to Nashville. Even if a vote for Gore in Massachusetts didn’t necessarily “count,” he says, “I was not going to go through a year and a half of campaigning and not vote...