Word: taxicabs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sure is. Last week model LAETITIA CASTA'S phone rang repeatedly as she sat in the back seat of a Parisian taxicab. The driver, understandably annoyed, doused the official face of France with a wallop of tear gas. It worked...
That long taxicab ride from Los Angeles to Las Vegas apparently convinced Buford Furrow that running was useless ?- which was 275 miles too late for postal worker Joseph Ileto. But because he is dead, Ileto is now authorities? straightest route to justice. Furrow has been charged with -- and reportedly has confessed to -? the killing of Ileto, along with those five counts of attempted murder, and prosecutors could seek the death penalty. Yet to a shocked public, and possibly to L.A. prosecutors seeking closure, the trial of Buford Furrow will be about hate. The connections to the white-supremacist, anti-semitic...
With almost every imaginable law enforcement agency -? including the Postal Inspection Service ?- on his trail, Buford O. Furrow Jr. slipped the massive L.A. dragnet ... in a taxicab. And then he turned himself in to the Las Vegas FBI, bright and early on Wednesday morning. And a motive? An FBI source told the Associated Press that Furrow simply walked into the office, said "You're looking for me, I killed the kids in Los Angeles," and offered an explanation: "He wanted this to be a wake-up call to America to kill Jews." Authorities say Furrow is cooperating, which is flack...
Busy Harvard Square was shut down for nearly three hours Friday night after a gasoline truck sideswiped a taxicab and began to leak its easily combustible fuel...
With spring break just around the corner, students are beginning to get all their travel gear in order. Packing clothes, books and CDs and finding just the right way to cram in those last minute additions consume the final minutes of packing and preparation. Flagging down a taxicab while weighed down with too much luggage is a last-minute ritual, too. But there is one final thing to remember: the tickets. Those airline tickets, which were received three months ago from faraway parents, are now nowhere to be found. As one stresses out in the last few minutes before...