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Nearly 80 percent of Cambridge taxi drivers could lose their jobs if recommendations of the Cambridge License Commission are enacted, a lawyer for the Cambridge Taxi Drivers Association said yesterday...
Until recently, mobile radio was to wireless communications what the Yugo was to transportation. With a motley clientele ranging from truckers using CBs to police armed with walkie-talkies to taxi drivers dispatched by radio, it was viewed as an unglamorous business and a technological backwater...
...whether it be in northeast D.C. or in the Quad. In fact, similar situations arise everyday for Black people in America, be they blue-collar workers or Harvard graduates. Racism knows no class or educational status. Whether it entails being followed by a storekeeper, refused a ride in a taxi, or harassed by a police officer, the prejudice is real...
...only thing that stands between him and a nice job is the year or so before his graduation. Or so he thought. Graduation for me is only seven months away, and Nick suddenly realized that the only serious job I've ever held was driving a cab for Yellow Taxi in Newton. Shoot, I even got fired from Lamont for hoarding the reserve readings...
...Abouhalima's friends from the Afghan center, El Sayyid Nosair, was put on trial for the shooting death of Rabbi Kahane the previous year. In this case too, Abouhalima was briefly a suspect. Police believed he was the intended getaway driver but that Nosair jumped into the wrong taxi by mistake. In 1991 Nosair was acquitted of murder but convicted on assault and weapons-related charges. In August the sweeping conspiracy indictment linked Nosair to the trade-center plot as well...