Word: carli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...car bomb exploded in Bogota shortly before midnight Thursday, killing four people, including a child. Three other small bombs went off Thursday night and a fourth was deactivated, Bogota police reported...
...next night my roommate called to ask for an escort. She was told that there was a waiting list and that they would call her when a car was available. Half an hour later she called a taxi. Another half-hour later the escort called to say they would pick her up in 15 minutes...
...years ago an independent evaluation of the escort service was made, and it was determined that a second car was not needed at that time. More recently, the demands for service were surveyed by this department, and a second escort car was added. In addition, we have assisted in the forming and training of the SafeStreets program, a walking escort service run by undergraduates from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. from the Law School area to Memorial Drive...
THIS summer, one prominent Harvard liberal extolled to me, over a few beers, the virtues of living in New York City. I told her that I prefer my little home-town in West Virginia, where you can leave your keys in your car, and where no one would think of walking past a starving man on the sidewalk. "Yes," she said, looking at me impatiently, "but what can you do on weekends...
...said before, I don't mean to sound like an old fuddy duddy who'd rather walk than take a motor car or who'd rather write long, languishing letters than call (although at least the latter is true). I just think we've got to realize that some people like L.P.'s even if they're turning into musical neanderthals. C.D. players are kind of like car phones or answering machines with remote call-in--sure they're an improvement, an advance, a fine addition to any upwardly mobile life. But they're heartless. They force us to evolve...