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...DIARY Like it or not, says TIME Asia correspondent Tim McGirk, Pakistan is a place where young girls moon over Osama bin Laden as if he were a rock star. Read about Tim's negotiations with protesters and religious taxi drivers in his weekly dispatches from the front. time.com/mcgirk...
...reached because he was at the front line working the radios, calling on his former colleagues to surrender. Many hours later, he was tracked down in a bazaar. He, the commander to whom he had surrendered and a dozen or so other fighters had poured themselves into a taxi to go off and do some shopping. The deserter turned out to be a shopkeeper from northern Afghanistan named Khan Jan who had been conscripted three months earlier...
...Best View: Likavittós Hill. A funicular hoists visitors to the summit, the picturesque chapel of Ayios Yeóryios. For the more energetic, a winding footpath leads to the top. A terraced cafe facing the Acropolis offers a stunning, expansive view. Best to Avoid: Taxi drivers who don?t smile, refuse to issue receipts and negotiate fares upon entry. Insist that the meter runs on single tariff while in Athens. Best Come-back: Benaki Museum. If you have time for only one museum stop, this Neo-classical landmark is the place to go. Open again after...
...plane will be diverted to the nearest airport" rule. Frequent flyer New York Rep. Charlie Rangel counseled understandably antsy people on his flight last week to hold tight or they?d be touching down in Dulles, 25 miles from Washington and three miles, by mobile-lounge, from the taxi-stand. "I've had it with people-movers," grumbled the Harlem congressman, who, like the rest of Washington, has been relegated to the Virginia airport for three weeks...
...find a taxi driver for the ride into Quetta, one I could trust to get me through the rioters. I settled on an old man who had possibly the worst cab in the parking lot. But he was a "Haji" - a Muslim who'd made the pilgrimage to Mecca - and he radiated a certain serenity. Besides, I thought the zealots in the mob would be impressed by his venerable white beard. Before he took my bags, he quizzed me: "Who is the Superpower? Allah, or America?" Allah, of course. "Get in," he says. "I'll get you into Quetta safely...