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...MUDDY TRACK 25 MILES OUTSIDE Hanoi lies the Ba Chua Khoa Pagoda. There, one recent afternoon, stood a taxi driver imploring the goddess of the treasury to ward off bribe-hungry police; a woman who had ridden 120 miles on her motorcycle to get the goddess's blessing for a new karaoke bar; and Hoang Ngoc Dung, a budding real estate magnate. "I came here at the beginning of the year so I'd make a lot of money," said Dung, a former schoolteacher. Afterward "I invested $40,000 in a piece of land outside Hanoi and sold...
...defending my lifestyle to people who have been driving since they were thirteen and first got a crack at the tractor, I decided to take action. I would take driving lessons for real and get my license. I would drive myself across the country, chaperone friends, start a taxi service. I called up a driving school in New York and started taking lessons...
...Decalogue 5"--one of the best films in the series--was later expanded into "A Short Film About Killing," also playing at the MFA. A young lawyer defends a youth, Jacek, against a sentence of capital punishment for his brutal killing of a taxi driver. In the opening, the lawyer's words--"The law should not imitate nature, the law should improve it...For whom does the law avenge?"--emerge, disembodied, from a black screen. From the beginning, the emphasis is on the nature of justice. The film does not excuse the youth's crime; he is shown first strangling...
...giveaway was the yellow diplomatic license plate with the number 64: it announced that the white Toyota Hiace van, making its morning run along Karachi's Shara-e-Faisal Boulevard, was registered to the U.S. consulate. At a red light, two men jumped out of a stolen taxi, and as one stood watch, another fired at the van with an AK-47 rifle. Sixteen gunshots later, Gary C. Durell, 45, a CIA communications technician, was dead, and Jackie Van Landingham, 33, a consulate secretary, was fatally wounded. A third employee, postal clerk Marc McCloy, 31, was shot in the ankle...
...aftermath of the tragic police helicopter crash that took four lives, one question arises: Do government agencies, especially the police (who have a high level of unaccountability), regularly provide helicopter taxi service for repairmen...