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...call a taxi to the White House." Billionaire record company mogul David Geffen. Speaking to former Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg about plans to form a new multi-media studio with Steven Spielberg. Geffen was staying in the Lincoln Bedroom as President Clinton's guest. Quoted in The New York Times (October...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPEAK | 10/19/1994 | See Source »

...Hutu. And as in Rwanda, the potential for ethnic violence has risen to the surface in the political vacuum left by the assassination of the Presidents of both countries last April. Now "every Hutu goes to sleep afraid he will be killed by a Tutsi," says Sicaire Ndikymana, a taxi driver in Bujumbura, the capital. "Every Tutsi goes to sleep afraid he will be killed by a Hutu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hell Postponed: Burundi's Balance of Fear | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

Bill Cavellini, a Cambridge taxi driver and a member of the pro-rent control interest group, says 1,300 signatures were written by the same several individuals, although only 300 of those were confirmed in the court...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Rent Control Referendum Faces ROAD BLOCKS | 7/12/1994 | See Source »

Cranston's life as the taxi-catching Shadow is disrupted by the arrival of Shiwan Khan, a direct descendent of Genghis Khan, who wishes to take over the world--starting with the Big Apple. He plans to use the semi-mythical material broncium in an implosive device--something which Cranston christens an "atomic bomb." "Catchy," replies the scientist (yup, the one he saved at the beginning) who tells him about the broncium...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: The Shadow Knows Entertainment | 7/8/1994 | See Source »

Ironically, Mujibur and Sirajul are unknown to many stateside Bangladeshis, who work immigrants' hours and lack both the time and the English to enjoy Letterman's Late Show. But word is spreading. At a Manhattan restaurant popular with Bangladeshi taxi drivers, opinions are as hot as the five-alarm curry. "These two people are stupid!" snaps one hacker. "They joined another stupid person, David Letterman, who does not have any respect for other cultures!" Among better-educated Bangladeshis, the unease is scarcely less intense. The Bangladesh Association of New England meets next month to draft a letter of complaint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: The Amos 'n' Sirajul Flap | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

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