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...needn't stand in the block-long queues for illuminating movie chat. You could simply flag a cab. One Toronto taxi driver-we'll call him Mohsen-launched into a passionate lecture on the state of Iranian cinema, listing the names of Iranian directors who had new work on show. "Of course the master is Kiarostami," he said, as if that name would be as familiar to his passengers as Spielberg...
...bellies of incoming planes, where the billboards all urged yanjing and the air reeked of roasted barley. In Dublin, Guinness anchors a working neighborhood; Milwaukee's Miller shoulders freeways and a ballpark; and in Beijing I expected industriousness to spill from Yanjing's kegs into the streets. Our cab would follow ant lines of tricycles, one rolling in empty, one clinking out full, past packed restaurants; and there would be Germans, lots of jolly Germans, licking foam from facial hair and shouting for another round. But the empty boulevard carried us in efficient quietness to the gates of Yanjing...
...middle-aged auto-rickshaw driver living in the northern Bombay area of Chimatpada, climbed into a taxi along with his wife, Fahmida, and two daughters, 16-year-old Farheen and four-year-old Shakira. As police later recounted, Hanif threw a heavy bag into the trunk of the cab and instructed the driver to take them to the Gateway of India, a Bombay landmark and one of the city's most popular tourist spots. Once there, the family told the driver to wait for them while they had lunch. Within a few minutes of their departure, the taxi exploded, turning...
...meticulously planned. Police say Hanif, Fahmida and Farheen had even made a trial run in the same taxi the previous day, with Ansari. They overlooked just one detail: while Ansari's driver was blown up along with his taxi at Zaveri Bazaar, the Hanifs' cabbie stepped out of his cab for a bite and so lived to provide the police with a sketch of a family that an informant would later identify as the Hanifs...
...resident of Somerville reported taking a cab from Faneuil Hall sometime between Aug. 9 at 11:00 p.m. and Aug. 10 at 2:00 a.m. while he was very intoxicated. He had argued with the taxi driver because he did not have enough money to cover his fare. He said he next remembered being in Harvard Square, his wallet and cell phone missing...