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...Holden; Charlie Chaplin, Charlie Brown. Nearly all of Hemingway's heroes are defeated in Winner Take Nothing and in the novels. In To Have and Have Not, Harry Morgan had not. The dark, antiheroes of a time as recent as the 1970s have disappeared too--De Niro in Taxi Driver, Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon. Bruce Springsteen sang about his "town full of losers." In Rocky 28, our hero may finally knock out Adrian, but in his first fight (1976) he lost beautifully...
...Carlos has served a twelve-year stint with the Yellow Cab Co., working nights. He claims no divine source of inspiration in choosing the job. After emigrating from El Salvador 20 years back, he found himself in need of work. Getting his taxi license, known in cab jargon as a "hacking license," was the obvious choice. "No matter how bad the economy is," he says, "you can always get a job as a cab driver." It is steady work, which he enjoys mostly because of the variety of people he meets...
...grow up. There were these great streets with mom-and-pop stores, something really different. I think Gaby [Glaser, guitarist] would really agree with me here. New York City's really lost its identity. There are so few real cities anymore. You go to any city and ask the taxi what there is to do and you'll hear Hard Rock Caf, Nike Store. I mean San Francisco even is getting that way. Manhattan is too expensive and it's impossible to live cheaply. It's lost its vibe. I guess that energy has moved to the outer boroughs...
Last week, Apple's board of directors demonstrated its gratitude. They granted Jobs 10 million stock options, already worth $200 million, and threw in $90 million to purchase and care for a Gulfstream V jet, perhaps to taxi the multidimensional CEO from his desk at Apple in Cupertino, Calif., to his other CEO job at Pixar Animation Studios, a few short miles across San Francisco Bay. "This guy has saved this company," says board member Edgar Woolard Jr., a former chairman of DuPont...
...Eleanor traveled the country in the months after her husband's death, she was overwhelmed by the emotion of all the people who came up to her, telling her how much they had loved her husband. Porters at the station, taxi drivers, doormen, elevator operators, passengers on the train, riders in the subway told her how much better their lives were as a result of his leadership...