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Since late October, French police have examined nearly 4,000 Fiat Unos in search of a vehicle showing signs of a recent paint job or rear-end repair. That investigation is still proceeding, and it has taken intriguing turns. Sources close to the investigation have told TIME that in November the French police thought they had their man. Debris found at the crash site, paint deposited on the Mercedes and other forensic evidence had led investigators to conclude that there had indeed been a tangential collision with a second car and that the other vehicle was a white Fiat...
...questioned several hours after the accident. This young man reported hearing the squeal of brakes behind him as he drove west through the tunnel at a moderate pace. In his rearview mirror he saw a black Mercedes skidding toward him at high speed. He accelerated to avoid a rear-end collision and saw the Mercedes hit the central pillar, then spin into the opposite wall. According to this witness, whose car showed no accident damage, there was no other vehicle between him and the Mercedes...
...shirt that freshmen in Massachusetts Hall had once designed: "The President Works Under Us." We laughed pleasantly. By the time he had had a few more Tanqueray and tonics, he was describing his favorite pickup lines on women in Guadeloupe, penile implants and how he had once offered his rear-end to a man. It's amazing how lively people become, well-watered. So the prize for best welcome back party must go to this renowned Back Bay couple, who manage to bring the world to their door and let flies-on-the-wall listen in. Bravo, bravo, bravo...
...Candidatus Perpetuus--This species has a chameleon-like power to blend in almost anywhere. These creatures have adapted a mandibular structure similar to that of the remora--they have lips able to get a tenacious grip on the rear-end of any authority figure in an instant. The Undergraduate Council is a favorite habitat of this species, as is any slow-moving committee with an impressive name. Members can be spotted preening resumes for days on end. After college, the Candidatus pupates for three years before emerging as a lawyer...
...driving his own children to school, also plunged in, pulling seven bodies from the water. Nye, a scuba diver, said efforts to help the children were hampered by water so opaque that it was impossible to see. Trapped children struggled to get out the front door, windows and one rear-end exit door. "I didn't expect to be alive, but I'm alive," said one. Twenty youngsters died and 63 people were injured, including the two drivers, in the worst school-bus accident in Texas history...