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Private companies are beginning to take advantage of the crowded roads and skies, and are buying up cars and rights-of-way to offer a plush alternative to a traffic jam. The Cape Cod & Hyannis Railroad carries 100,000 passengers between Boston and the Cape from May through October. While motorists on the single major highway are bumper to bumper, passengers can recline in the velvety Presidential parlor car, built in 1925. Next May in California, the Napa Valley Wine Train is expected to begin shuttling wine lovers from vineyard to vineyard in vintage railcars...
Intelligent people can only be jealous of our plush and elegant lifestyle. They must live in the hustle and bustle of Cambridge, while we Quadlings can escape Harvard proper and take shelter in our pleasure resort hideaway. The studious Riverlings must run around from library to library, while we can find all of our reserve readings in Hilles (which has its own grille along with free juice, candy, and xerox machines). And River residents must trek to Hemenway Gym to play squash, while we can just cross the street to the QRAC. No wonder they're envious...
...Osama's house several twists and turns away from the square, his mother, father and sisters crowded into the living room, and tea was served. The room was a chilly concrete square furnished with plush red sofas and a cabinet full of china figurines. Osama unwound a red-and-white-checked kaffiyeh from his head as he began talking. He was fresh out of jail, having served 14 days for throwing a tear-gas canister back at Israeli soldiers. "The army is the provocation," he said. "The fact that they come into our camp is enough so that the shabab...
There was a tense moment at the beginning of the day when Giamatti first entered his plush Park Avenue offices, however...
...Cesar Rodriguez, who had worked as a pilot for Noriega, was murdered in Colombia in what appeared to be a drug deal gone awry. Critics charge that while Noriega has deported some midlevel traffickers to the U.S., he has never arrested the cocaine barons who use Panama as a plush hideout. After Colombia's Justice Minister, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, was assassinated in 1984, leaders of the Colombian drug cartel headed for Panama to escape the heat...