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...Russia today "freedom shock," to use Guzman's term, is explained succinctly by Roman, a 42-year-old taxi driver in Yaroslavl. "People have no concept of freedom," he says. "They substitute freedom of action for freedom of thought. They see freedom as license. They don't realize freedom requires self-discipline. They fear that freedom leads to anarchy. They view it as the ability, if one can, to lord it over those weaker than they are." This may explain why, in a survey of almost 2,500 Russians conducted in January by Richard Rose, a professor at the University...
...such as a plane rolling off the runway because of worn brakes. In the first five weeks of 1996, the carrier experienced four "incidents," as the FAA terms them: a hard landing and tail strike, a nose wheel that strayed off the runway when the crew could not see taxi lights, an aircraft that skidded on ice at low speed and a flight attendant injured in turbulence. The number and frequency of these incidents prompted the FAA to launch a 120-day "Special Emphasis Review" that resulted in extra training for the pilots and an agreement by Jordan to slow...
Also, the city just announced a new initiative to make taxi riding more pleasant: drivers will be required to learn 50 courteous phrases that the authorities believe to be appropriate for dealing with passengers. What New Yorkers found entertaining in that piece of news was that these 50 phrases will be the only complete sentences of English some drivers know. We can now look forward to hearing a driver punctuate a stream of Haitian patois or Urdu or Russian with "It is my pleasure to place your bags in the trunk" or "May I help you into the building...
...Airport fares supplement the runs you do around the city," said taxi driver James P. Henry. "It really helps you with expenses...
...know that very often, you call a cab and you can't get one," Davis said. "So maybe there's room for more cabs." Henry, 39, said the plan would disproportionately affect employment among minorities. About 85 percent of Cambridge's 900 taxi drivers are non-white, he said...