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...though, the two groups seemed to be connected only tangentially, through Sheik Abdel Rahman. Members of both groups worshipped at the Jersey City, New Jersey, mosque where Abdel Rahman preaches fiery sermons. Mahmud Abouhalima, an alleged member of the World Trade Center gang, once served as Abdel Rahman's driver. Siddig Ali was Abdel Rahman's interpreter...
...taxi driver in a battered vehicle with a Bruegger's Bagel bag in the front hailed me and began driving me at breakneck speed to Somerville, cursing at the traffic in the tunnel and stopping reluctantly to pay the toll...
...This, by the way, is a brilliant idea in theory but in practice involves tailing numerous kamikaze-driver delivery boys through unsavory neighborhoods...
Yeoman service of a different sort came from bureau driver Kazuo Tsubaki, a % former octopus salesman at the vast Tokyo fish market. Recalls Makihara: "At my request, Tsubaki-san chatted up several fishmongers to find out how the imperial household collects 2,700 fresh sea bream for its six wedding banquets." Answer: it asks fishing ports nationwide to set aside their entire catch of foot-long bream...
AFTER TAKING TWO MINUTES TO EXPLAIN THE BASICS, HARVEY Houtkin opens a trading account in my name and shows me to the driver's seat. To my right a hairdresser has just plunked down $39,250 on a stock, and she's riding it like a champion surfer. To my left a computer screen is alive with flashing rows of swiftly changing prices. "Remember, the trend is your friend," says Houtkin. Suddenly I'm feeling lightheaded...