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...said that he was converting to Islam because it all made sense and had just clicked with him?. His mother was not best pleased about it but after he converted he seemed a lot calmer and more at peace with himself." Friends of Savant, who works as a taxi driver, also provided the by-now familiar tales of the terror suspect as a young man who loved his football and hanging out with his mates before a religious conversion. According to Reuters he converted to Islam in 1997 or 1998, when he began wearing traditional dress, grew a beard...
...took advantage of Monday's lull to flee the war zone and make their way north. They bring with them their country ways and their rage. "These children, they won't just grow up to fight Israel, they'll fight America too," said a young mother just arrived by taxi from Bint Jbeil district, scene of some of the war's heaviest ground fighting. One of her cousins, a Hizballah fighter, had been killed by the Israelis in nearby Maroun...
...writers go, F.X. Toole was not one of your precocious, dewy-eyed Iowa Writers' Workshop debutants. He attended the M.F.A. program of hard knocks. If his author's bio is to be believed, he was a taxi driver, saloon keeper, bullfighter (really?) and, most notably and relevantly, a boxing trainer and cut man. Toole (a pseudonym) was also the author of the story collection Rope Burns, best known for the short story Million Dollar Baby, which became a movie of the same name. Rope Burns was Toole's literary debut...
...attempted to leave together and were advised to evacuate with the Canadian embassy. "We felt a lot of people needed [their help] more than we did," she said. "We heard rumors that 25,000 Canadians were trying to evacuate. So we decided to do it on our own." A taxi driver was willing to take her and her sister to the Syrian border. Ever since the war broke out, he'd been driving people back and forth across the border at least twice a day. It took them 40 minutes to get to the border, "and yet, they were...
...ducked into a store front where we waited for quiet before running to the bus station...we spent the next half hour trying to convince a sherut driver (a minibus taxi) to drive us out of the city,” she added...