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...WHAT HAPPENS] Unstable taxi driver Jerry Fletcher has his eyes taped open and a bright light shone in them; then he's submerged in water and nearly drowned...
...encountered was 17. The oldest was an 82-year-old fruit seller from Bogota who was caring for a 40-year-old retarded son. The narcotraffickers promised her that with just one trip, she could ensure her son's future. But a condom burst as she got into a taxi at Kennedy Airport, and she died an agonizing death. "I sent her home," says Tobon. Many, if not most, mules are women...
...always knew New York City was full of crazy people, bizarre incidents in dark alleyways and scary taxi rides, but that was before you climbed into a cab with Jerry. Wild-eyed and handsomely grungy, he scares his passengers with his crazy talk and even crazier driving and pulls up to famous people not to let them in his cab but to take pictures of them through his window. But this taxi driver has deep blue eyes and drop-dead good looks, and happens to be played by MelGibson...
...leather-goods, perfumes and CD's. Occasionally, the wandering, by-now-confused pedestrian can stumble onto an improvised, rousing performance of traditional Chinese opera, an experience never to be forgotten. At the side of the street, uninterested in the trafficking of shoppers and bargain-hunters, locals and off-duty taxi-drivers pause at an open-air restaurant, where they can taste the array of local flavors in the midst of strong, all-pervading effusions of sauces and the ever-present dumpling steam...
...late 1995 and went on to become the most central figure in Washington's fund-raising mess. And yet he remains a mystery. If he was a P.R.C. spy posing as a fund raiser and didn't want to leave any footprints, why would he submit receipts for taxi rides to the Chinese embassy? If he was busily slipping secrets to his old firm, the Lippo Group, why did he refuse the chance to win higher security clearances...