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...March 7, an unidentified miscreant left a taxicab outside Quincy House without paying the fare. Angered, perhaps, by the slighted driver’s protestations, the suspect allegedly stumbled to the House’s glass side-door, shoved someone through it, and went on his merry way. Though his victim wound up hospitalized, the details of the attack remain hazy; interim House Masters Lee and Deb Gehrke, in an email to Quincy residents, wrote enigmatically that, “the full details of the incident are not known, and may never be completely known...
...20min. scene of a drug deal monitored by the cops, as Lau and Leung try to get messages to their contacts without being caught; a couple of tense rooftop meetings that end in death; Leung's pursuit of Lau outside a movie theater; and the moment when a taxicab is abruptly flattened, out of the sky, by the falling body of one of the main characters. The remake includes all of these scenes (though the last one loses some of its sick impact when the body simply lands on the street). Indeed, this is a faithful version of IA - just...
...were able to conceal such a horrific event for so long. It began, as so many things in Iraq do, with an explosion. At about 7:15 in the morning on Nov. 19, a string of four humvees were on routine patrol in a residential area when a white taxicab approached from the opposite end of the street. The Marines made hand and arm signals for the taxi to stop. But as the taxi halted near the first humvee, a bomb under the fourth humvee exploded, killing its driver--Lance Corporal Miguel (T.J.) Terrazas, 20, of El Paso, Texas--wounding...
...Orleans government like a business. He eliminated a $25 million budget deficit, renegotiated many municipal contracts on more favorable terms and cut red tape by putting applications for permits and other requests online. He won high marks for an anticorruption drive that targeted notorious centers of graft like the Taxicab Bureau and resulted in the arrests of many low-level city officials...
Having topped himself, Stumpf yearns to broaden his range. "To tell you the truth," he says, "I'm bored with designing for the office. Bored stiff." Among the things he would like to design are baby strollers that do not jiggle, an airplane with an observation deck, a taxicab with a glass roof, and police uniforms and cars that "don't scare the hell out of kids." His manner is sparky, one part anger to two parts joy, like a more thoughtful, humble Lee lacocca. "Ninety-five per-cent of industrial designers don't design," he says. "They are essentially...