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...global manhunt. One of the suspects, a 33-year-old redhead, was captured in his native Egypt by government agents, brutally tortured until he confessed to the bombing and then flown back to America to stand trial. His name: Mahmud Abouhalima. Prosecutors say Abouhalima, a former New York City taxi driver, was the ) motorist who paid for the fuel on that February morning in Jersey City. But his significance doesn't end there. The U.S. contends that he is the epitome of the modern terrorist, a self-made commando pursuing a homemade agenda to disrupt Western civilization...
Readers will learn, for example, that his father was a doctor who did research on tropical diseases, and his mother a secretary. The family was considered somewhat eccentric -- they drove around in an old London taxi because they couldn't afford a new car. Hawking didn't concentrate much on his studies in college, and gave up completely for a while when his ALS was diagnosed. But his marriage, and the need to support a family, got him to start working hard for the first time in his life. "To my surprise," he writes, "I found I liked...
...that, by reel three, would take the young woman's life. As the disease progressed, a similar malignancy claimed the commentators' attempts at humor: as the hero aided his limping wife through a snowy lawn, the chorus declared, "Nice day for a drag,"; a pain-wracked hailing of a taxi elicited, "To the morgue--and step on it!"; finally, as the husband entered his lover's deathbed for a tender farewell, the Crimson Key offered, "Necrophilia...
...gold when the blond countess receives yellow roses from Newland, a slow-motion vignette of working men -- the people whose labor subsidizes the idle class. Throughout, he shows he can be as attentive to the tiniest twinges of the heart as he has been to the gunfire of taxi drivers and goodfellas. Here, instead of shouting, people speak softly and in code. The movie is 135 thrilling minutes waiting for someone to come to the point. And that is the point: a man is at risk in this society if he says what he thinks or does what he feels...
...Denver think-tank Center for the New West, puts it, the "lone eagles." Burgess agrees that "what's happening in the Rockies is not unlike what happened in California in its golden years." But he emphasizes a big difference: "In the Rocky Mountain region, it's not taxi drivers anymore -- it's professional people who realize they can locate anywhere and live by their wits. Many were middle managers who were forced off the corporate gravy train in the latest recession and said, 'Why live in New York or L.A.? I can have a modem and a fax and live...