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...date, confirming New York's position as the capital of capitalism. Meanwhile, half a world away, the few residents of Baghdad who had electricity sat stuck to their TV sets, watching the superpower grope in the dark. "We stayed up for an hour watching it," said a taxi driver, "until the electricity shut down." --Reported by Amanda Bower, Sean Gregory and Jyoti Thottam/New York; Laura Eggertson/Ottawa; Steven Frank/Toronto; Elisabeth Kauffman/Nashville; Eric Roston, Douglas Waller and Mark Thompson/Washington; Fran Stewart/Cleveland; and Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas
...spoken, nonfamous Republican, and everyone felt a sense of relief. An action hero works well within a simple story structure, but politics isn't a story; it's a process. It's not about confrontation and threat and revenge and triumph. It's mostly about civility, starting with the driver's license bureau of the Commissariat of Motor Vehicles and on up to the folks in the black robes. Most men and women in politics are there because they genuinely like people and want to do good things on their behalf. It's hard work, and fury...
...resident of Somerville reported taking a cab from Faneuil Hall sometime between Aug. 9 at 11:00 p.m. and Aug. 10 at 2:00 a.m. while he was very intoxicated. He had argued with the taxi driver because he did not have enough money to cover his fare. He said he next remembered being in Harvard Square, his wallet and cell phone missing...
...Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami’s latest film is based on ten conversations of a female driver (Mania Akbari) in Tehran with her passengers. These include her young and frustrated son Amin, a prostitute, a jilted bridge, a woman on her way to prayers and others. Having just ended a messy divorce and enduring criticism from her son, she acts as advice columnist for her problem-riddled passengers—whose drastically different lives are just glimpsed through the camera in the taxicab. Ten screens Wednesday, August...
MEANWHILE IN SWEDEN ... Skirting the Rules His employer wouldn't let bus driver Mats Lundgren wear shorts as temperatures reached 25?C in the northern Swedish city of Umea. Lundgren's solution: he showed up to work wearing a skirt. He had found a loophole in the company's dress code that allowed drivers - regardless of gender - to wear skirts...