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...lucky spring breakers who booked their Cancun getaway through World Class Vacations backed their asses up and started chugging away the memory of flying on "America's Greatest Little Airline," North American. The airline boasted many creative techniques: folding tables masquerading as check-in counters, colored-in poster boards explaining that the desolate region of Logan airport roping them in was not under construction, but was for those lucky few who had splurged on North American. Thanking God that they had made it to Cancun alive, they were confronted by the nasal sounds of Larry, a self-proclaimed World Class...

Author: By Jennifer Y. Hyman, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Experts of the Scam | 4/20/2000 | See Source »

...prosecuted the Los Angeles cops who beat Rodney King--to examine two of Pepper's more checkable allegations: former Memphis bar owner Loyd Jowers' claim that he set up the shooting and ex-FBI agent Donald Wilson's claim that he found a scrap of paper in Ray's getaway car with the phone number of a Dallas nightclub once owned by Jack Ruby, the killer of Lee Harvey Oswald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Have a Scheme | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...does. And the story just gets stranger. Ten days earlier, at an Irvine office park, Ford's business partner, a gregarious 58-year-old named James Patrick Riley, had been shot in the face by a gunman wearing a ski mask. Riley survived. When police tracked the getaway car, its driver turned out to be an acquaintance of Ford's. "This conspiracy to commit murder was financially motivated," a prosecutor told reporters after searching Ford's home. Ford referred reporters to his lawyer, saying only, "It's just a crazy, crazy situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Bury Explosives In a Suburban Yard? | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...speedier train between Harvard and Yale might, in fact, accomplish a lot more than decrease travel time; it might stir up our school spirit as well. With faster getaway rates and quicker escapes, the Acela train might just introduce a new era of competition and rivalry between the two schools. Forget channeling our energy into just the Harvard-Yale football game, we'll be out there for the fencing rounds, crew races, ballroom dancing competitions and squash matches as well...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: DARTBOARD: The Editors Take Aim at the Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 2/4/2000 | See Source »

...into the dark fields. The road is red from the taillights and slippery and I can't get a grip, but then boom, Esteban pops the clutch and the Subaru whinnies and I get in while it's moving and we're off, Esteban at the wheel. Like a getaway car! In a minute Esteban's doing 80 m.p.h. He's veering on and off the road. "ˇFlojo! ˇFlojo!" Marisa is saying, urging him to slow down, but young Esteban has something to prove to her and to T/N, so 80 it is, the engine hitting high notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitchhiker's Cuba | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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