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...travelers a cooler kind of commute -- and a quicker one, given the usual traffic snarls on the M4 highway. Those arriving or departing at Heathrow on Virgin's New York City, Los Angeles or Tokyo flights have a choice between a free limousine ride or a seat behind the driver of a Honda motorcycle. Each Taxijet is equipped with heated leather seats and running boards, has a hands-free portable telephone and intercom, and can cut the driving time to less than 30 minutes. Helmets and weatherproof clothing are provided, but passengers may tote only one carry-on bag. Book...
Calogero's father Lorenzo (De Niro) is a bus driver who has forbidden his son to have any contact with the shady characters downstairs. Along with teaching him all the important stats about the Yankees and Mickey Mantle, Lorenzo has tried to instill in his son solid sense of family and religion. His advice is essentially this: Working to provide for your family is right and admirable, so stay in school and use your talent...
...manhunt. One of the suspects, a 33-year-old redhead, was captured in his native Egypt by government agents, brutally tortured until he confessed to the bombing and then flown back to America to stand trial. His name: Mahmud Abouhalima. Prosecutors say Abouhalima, a former New York City taxi driver, was the ) motorist who paid for the fuel on that February morning in Jersey City. But his significance doesn't end there. The U.S. contends that he is the epitome of the modern terrorist, a self-made commando pursuing a homemade agenda to disrupt Western civilization...
Almost from the moment the two men arrived in the U.S. in 1990, Abouhalima began serving as the holy man's part-time bodyguard and driver, a fact that Abouhalima has confirmed to the New York Times despite the sheik's claim that he doesn't know the man. The sheik's sponsor in America was Shalabi, Abouhalima's boss at the Afghan recruitment center in Brooklyn. Before long, Shalabi and Sheik Omar became entangled in a struggle for leadership of the Muslim circle. In March 1991 Shalabi was found shot and stabbed to death on the floor...
...December 1991 one of Abouhalima's friends from the Afghan center, El Sayyid Nosair, was put on trial for the shooting death of Rabbi Kahane the previous year. In this case too, Abouhalima was briefly a suspect. Police believed he was the intended getaway driver but that Nosair jumped into the wrong taxi by mistake. In 1991 Nosair was acquitted of murder but convicted on assault and weapons-related charges. In August the sweeping conspiracy indictment linked Nosair to the trade-center plot as well...