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...N.Y.C. TAXI KILLS BRITISH POLITICIAN...
...Winston Churchill was seriously injured when he stepped in front of a New York City taxi. If the impact had been harder, Viscount Lord Halifax, later known for wanting out of an "unwinnable" war with Germany, would probably have become British Prime Minister on May 10, 1941, and gone on to encourage Hitler's peace feelers after the fall of France. Instead of grim Churchillian defiance, BBC radio would have broadcast Halifax's crisp announcement of the "end of this mad war." Unhindered by a battle with Britain, Hitler would have been free to launch an even more ferocious assault...
There is no begging, no corruption, virtually no crime. "We would not be so dishonorable," says Russon, an Asmara taxi driver. However poor they are, families share with the truly destitute. A fierce sense of personal rectitude makes thievery unthinkable. "It is not the police who prevent crime but the honor inside us," insists Fikad, the blacksmith. "The corruption is the lowest of any government I've ever worked for, including in Santa Rosa, Calif.," says Michael O'Neill, an American adviser to the Commercial Bank of Eritrea. "They will not tolerate it in any way, shape or form." During...
Martin Scorsese (Kundun) Taxi Driver, for the red and checkered...
Harry Chapin's "Taxi" blares from the overheadspeakers as one of the locals in the corner loudlydiscusses his upcoming vasectomy operation, onlytwo short days away. This time, Mike shoots hismouth off about Iraq, Monica Lewinsky, the Bruins'incompetence, and other topics to anyone who willlisten. Nearly every pool table is full. At oneside of the room, a bearded man in his early 30smoves slowly in a circle, practicing a cut shotfrom every diamond on the table. Two Latinopatrons in work-stained t-shirts speak softly inSpanish and slam home stripes and solids inongoing games of eight-ball. Next to them...