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Prozac Defense II, 1996 --Edward J. Leary claimed that a cocktail of Prozac and other drugs drove him mad and made him firebomb two subway trains. Verdict: guilty. Sentence: 94 years in prison...
...relieved to see that each city was neatly pinpointed on a detailed map, and most had good descriptions to help me figure out where in Maine we should go in the first place. Even better, I could read the book in bed or on the subway. It was so civilized...
...country in the months after her husband's death, she was overwhelmed by the emotion of all the people who came up to her, telling her how much they had loved her husband. Porters at the station, taxi drivers, doormen, elevator operators, passengers on the train, riders in the subway told her how much better their lives were as a result of his leadership...
...then there's Washington's Metro, a disgustingly clean and predictable subway. There, faux-Roman arches make every station into a cavernous Pantheon. Which would be fine, had the Romans built with concrete, but they knew better. Washington's Metro is the Mather House of subways--simultaneously large, impressive, cold and ugly. All the same, it has redeeming features--like the Sonny Rollins look- and sound-alike who plays atop Farragut North or the longest escalator outside of Russia at Wheaton. But these amenities do little to compensate for its reigning hobgoblin, a gray-grim consistency...
...Burke intimated: to make us love our subway, our subway must be lovely; not merely awesome, like DC's vaulted ceilings, nor intimidating, like the band of merry men on New York's trains. Perhaps the T's age is gone; maybe that of the D C Metro has succeeded. But, fortunately, the T is safely encased below Boston, and its glory will not fade anytime soon--at least, not so long as every small platoon of liberty, the unique stations, musicians and the rest, remain. Boston had the best subway at the beginning of the 20th century...