Word: cabs
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Francine N. Schweitzer, a commuter from Westchester who was able to take a cab for metered fare from Grand Central Station this morning, said her daughter had a taxi driver who tried to charge her $25 to get from the West Side to the East Side. Several taxi drivers refused to comment on fares during the strike...
Ihsanullah Khan is long-shot rescuer. A Pakistani immigrant, Khan drove a cab in Washington and pinned his dreams on winning the lottery. Khan always played the same numbers--2, 4, 6, 17, 25 and 31--because they had once appeared in a dream. Every week for 15 years, he bet religiously on the numbers and lost. Then in November 2001, when the jackpot rose to $55.2 million, Khan's lucky numbers finally came through. He pulled his taxi over to the curb, took a deep breath and thought of his mother, whose dying words to him were...
...Nikki—who would like to assert to FM editors that she has turned her cab light on in the past...
...intricacies of Harvard culture, and you’d think that we were all qualified to talk about how our “dining companion… tremendously enjoyed” his grilled sirloin at Aspasia. That we think “classy” means taking a cab to the hotel room you rented because you just can’t be bothered with the hissy heater in your dorm room. That we can afford to think really hard about Brooks Brothers, and take “wardrobe guidance” from them in preparation for our summer internships...
...thinking that Cambridge-Harvard relations aren’t really a problem. Yes, we strut around like we own the place, with our heavy volumes of Plato and Voltaire bursting out our big H-branded bags; we launch ourselves recklessly across the streets to the dismay of cab-drivers; we don’t necessarily “care” about the town itself. But the University enjoys a symbiotic relationship with Cambridge, forming an academic community which locals identify as a source of pride—not a symbol of an elitism which they despise.Juliet Samuel...