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...attacks, evoking memories of the pair of lovers in Dante’s epic – Francesca and Paulo – who are tossed around by the “stormy blast of Hell.” McDonell’s image of a turban-wearing taxi driver – unconscious and blood-soaked in a smoking cab on a West Side sidewalk – is perhaps a reference to Dante’s heretic, Pope Anastasius, who lies inside a flaming sepulcher in the Inferno...
...entirely prepared for the ministrations of his tour guides. They operate a grandly named organization called Heritage Tours, which consists of a dubious car and eccentric employees: Alex (Eugene Hutz), who says he enjoys writing but really wants to be an accountant; and Alex's grandfather (Boris Leskin), the driver, who claims to be blind and to require the services of "a seeing eye b____" named Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. Alex is one of those young Europeans who dream the American dream but whose actual knowledge of the country consists of half-baked and out-of-date pop-cultural references...
SURRENDERED. HEATHER TALLCHIEF, 33, former armored- truck driver and one of the FBI's most-wanted fugitives, for a 1993 heist in which she ditched her co-workers at a Las Vegas casino and drove off with some $3 million; in Las Vegas. Her lawyer said she had been "brainwashed" by her boyfriend and handed over the money to him; he's still at large...
...that remnants of Saddam's Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) carried it out. "It was a pure Baathist operation," says a senior U.S. intelligence official. "The Iraqis who served as U.N. security guards simply didn't show up for work that day. It wasn't a suicide bomb. The truck driver left the scene. Our [explosives] team found that the bomb had the distinctive forensics of Saddam...
...brakes are applied. In the future we can develop a sleep-and-drive-prevention system, whereby a device will tap the sleeper and wake him up. I want to make it happen quickly. My dream is a system that would pick up the danger of collision and save the driver or passenger from being [ejected] and suffering injuries--something like a net that rescues a person before collision because there are many cases where people are thrown and hit the road, an electric pole, a guard rail and die instantly...