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...notion of shorter sentences an incendiary idea in today's political climate...
...acquainted ritual given by Hillary Rodham Clinton. A visiting choir was singing below in the Rose Garden to the President. The flowers were voluptuous, the iced tea tangy. Deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster moved through the group, hunching his shoulders so that he was closer to the shorter guests, a beaded chain holding his White House pass hanging outside his pinstripe suit -- a shackle perhaps. But that is an afterthought...
...Santa Fe carries nearly 3,000 trailers and containers a week for Hunt, which, with 7,000 truck tractors, is trying to cut long trips in order to regionalize service areas for less wear and tear on drivers. The advantages trucks have over rails are flexibility and time in shorter distances. Hunt spends $200 million a year on alliances with eight rail companies and plans to integrate further by putting 1,000 newly designed containers a month into service to replace its 17,000 older trailers...
...years to your life, but then you'd be stuck behind legions of losers trying to turn left. Somehow, those canny Cambridge traffic controllers never figured that turn arrows at intersections could save people a lot of aggravation. So you resign yourself to a slightly shorter ride in a continuous cloud of instant smog...
Fifteen minutes later, you arrive in the huge-but-not-big-enough Star parking lot. It would have been shorter, and perhaps even cheaper, to take the T. Along the way, there was the guy who cut you off without using his turn signal, the woman who put on her left turn signal that made you change into the right lane but then didn't turn left, and the slimeballs who snuck past you in the half-lane on the right to do the U-turn past the T station and into...