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While vacation bound Harvard students were flagging down taxi cabs to the airport last week, Cambridge officials once again delayed a proposed sale of 52 taxi licenses from Yellow Cabs of Cambridge to the Ambassador/Brattle Cab Company, pending an independent investigation...
Among many there is an optimism and sense that everything is possible in this country. "Anyone who works hard can make it in America," said a Haitian cabbie who bought his own cab after two years here...
...call a cab. We walk outside. Katherine Jackson pulls up in a car and gets out with several packages. We follow her in. She is about 5 ft. 4 in. and is wearing a blue pantsuit and a red blouse with a tie at the neck. She walks with a slight limp (she had polio as a baby). Her hair is black and rolls to the shoulders. Her skin is smooth and creamy brown like Michael's. Jackson tells her it would be good for her to have an interview with me. She says...
...cab pulls out, past a three-tiered white fountain at the front of the house. Michael's red-and-white scooter bike is leaning against a wall. All the windows in the house are leaded glass with beveled panes. We start out the open gate, when suddenly the guard in the security station runs and calls after us. We return to the house. Michael's parents are waiting in the foyer. Katherine Jackson calls me by name and says, "There have been a lot of rumors about Michael, that he has had operations to have his eyes widened...
This time the cab gets past the gate, which clicks closed behind us. On the street are two police cars and a group of teen-age girls hanging out, hoping for a glimpse of Michael...