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...cigar while he cuts the grass--thanks to an automatic transmission, cruise control and power steering that makes one-handed driving a snap. He can plug a CD player into the 12-volt outlet and sip a beverage from the cup holder. There's enough juice under the hood--with a "high torque," liquid-cooled 24-h.p. engine--to tote his three sons in a wagon. "If you ask my wife, it's a toy, and she's right," he says. The price of his fully loaded lawn chariot: $17,000, same as a Chevy pickup...
...Toomey is sort of like a Robin Hood guy. He wants to steal from the rich and give to the poor,” Slavitt says. “He is not in favor of PILOT [Payment In Lieu Of Taxes] and he wants Harvard to take in vastly more money than it does and he wants to give it to his constituency. Without Harvard or MIT, Cambridge basically is Everett or Somerville. It’s a great national ornament and it should be protected...
...going to show you how an Italian dies." FABRIZIO QUATTROCCHI, an Italian security guard in Iraq, trying to remove a hood from his head moments before he was executed by Iraqi kidnappers...
...show you how an Italian dies." FABRIZIO QUATTROCCHI, an Italian private-security guard who was kidnapped in Iraq, trying to pull off his hood to face his captors seconds before he was executed...
...prize? The cheese. The very purpose of such antics is to defy explanation. "It's a ritual, innit?" is the best any of these Olimpians can come up with, and Daeschner wisely avoids proposing any fancier theories. Instead he joins in, getting his ribs crushed while Swaying the Hood (150-a-side prehistoric rugby), denting shins at Chipping Campden and passing out in a pub toilet having tried to go whisky-for-whisky with the Burryman - who is sewn, head and body, into a suit of prickly burdock burrs so that all the ambient evils of South Queensferry near Edinburgh...