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...seize the moral high ground is annoying enough to the Zimbabweans who even noticed it. But the laughable part of the England players' call for a venue change was the worry about "safety issues." "You get the impression that people are running after whites with machetes," sighs Chenjerai, a taxi driver. "Johannesburg is bad. Harare is quite safe." And probably never safer than during the Cup. "Mugabe will sanitize the area," says political commentator Diana Mitchell of the wide, treelined avenues around the cricket ground. "There will be a corridor of protection. The cricketers won't see a thing." Which...
Scorsese has directed and produced noteworthy films including “Taxi Driver,” “New York, New York,” “The Color of Money” and “Casino...
...Saeed denies any involvement in Pearl's kidnapping, even though authorities say logs of his phone calls and e-mails link him to the plotters. The most damning?and disputed?piece of evidence in Saeed's trial came from a taxi driver who dropped Pearl outside the Metropole Hotel where he was abducted. The cabbie testified that he saw Saeed sitting in the car that drove the reporter away. But during the trial, Saeed's defense lawyers argued that in the 7 p.m. darkness and from 15 meters away, it would have been impossible for the cabbie to distinguish...
...Road, has as a theme "urban creation." And on display are the works of artists both delighted and disturbed by a rapidly changing metropolitan landscape. Among the star pieces are a playhouse-size structure made of plastic Coca-Cola bottles and designed by renowned Japanese architect Shigeru Ban; a taxi deconstructed by Thailand's Navin Rawanchaikul and fashioned into furniture; and a mobile made of pieces of trash?a Styrofoam takeout box, a plastic bag, netting that's used to protect fruit?whose dreamy shadows are projected onto a blue-tinged wall by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist...
Saturday, Dec. 7, was national Students' Day in Iran, so Farnaz Shirazi - a middle-aged, middle-class housewife with two sons and a husband who drives a taxi - attended a demonstration outside Tehran University. But instead of listening to impassioned speeches, she found herself running down an alley, trying to get away from police clearing the street with truncheons. "We don't have free speech and we don't have freedom," Shirazi (not her real name) said after stopping to catch her breath. "I have come here to support the students for my children's future." Since early November, students...