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...different set of challenges. Anxiety about the economy, about work and pensions, has replaced a desire to change the world. "People don't have to go the barricades any more: they just need a job," says Walter Lindner, a Fischer aide. It's three decades since Fischer, a former taxi driver who organized the Revolutionary Struggle protest group, last manned barricades and fought Germany's police force on the streets. Grainy photos showing a black-helmeted Fischer apparently punching and kicking a police officer in Frankfurt in April 1973 re-emerged in the German press four years...
Miss the latter, and you’ll find yourself scrambling to call a taxi that can take you to the Walpole train station. And then, if you’re lucky, Boston...
...Logan airport in the late afternoon, but they told me that the flight had been canceled due to mechanical problems, and I’d have to fly out early Sunday morning instead. So I had a free Saturday night, out of the blue! I jumped in a taxi and got home in time to join my girlfriend Rebecca for a long sunset walk along the Charles and around Harvard Square...
...attacks, evoking memories of the pair of lovers in Dante’s epic – Francesca and Paulo – who are tossed around by the “stormy blast of Hell.” McDonell’s image of a turban-wearing taxi driver – unconscious and blood-soaked in a smoking cab on a West Side sidewalk – is perhaps a reference to Dante’s heretic, Pope Anastasius, who lies inside a flaming sepulcher in the Inferno...
MIKE WAGERS, taxi driver whose suspicions led police to capture a couple who claimed, during a 115-mile cab ride, to be headed to an Amway convention in Columbus, Ohio, but turned out to be an escaped prisoner and his wife, who that day had killed a guard during her husband's transfer to another penitentiary in Tennessee...