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...addition, travel on Western European trains is very reliable—ICE reports punctuality rates of 94 percent, just ahead of the pan-European Eurostar train??s 92 percent. European train operators have realized that few things annoy travelers more than transport delays. Amtrak has not. Its 77 percent on time rate puts it roughly on par with European and US flight punctuality. European trains also provide less quantitative benefits, including wireless internet, uninterrupted cell phone services, and something that planes will never have: Windows that open and fresh air. Unsurprisingly, while Amtrak stagnates in the U.S., more...
...disabled individuals.” Like the national organization—which attempts to raise public awareness while also working directly with governments and NGOs—the Harvard LiNK chapter plans a combination of events on campus, beginning with a screening of the documentary “Seoul Train?? at its launch event this Wednesday. The group also has plans for a North Korea awareness week, a benefit concert to raise money for orphans, and an art exhibition this semester. “People here [at] Harvard should learn about what’s going...
...street.” Indeed, the 36-year-old Boston MC is so dedicated to his on-stage persona that he doesn’t give out his real name to reporters. In the mid-1980s and early 1990s, he toured under another moniker—A-Train??with now-all-but-forgotten Boston greats like Edo G and The Almighty RSO. Today, he runs a website for local hip-hop artists, and acts as a historian and elder statesman for Boston...
...beleaguered passenger train service remain distressingly high. For travel times of over four hours, standard round-trip tickets between Boston and New York cost around $110, and for service via the crown jewel of the Amtrak network—namely, the “high-speed” Acela train??these prices rise to over $200 for trips that last only an hour less. JetBlue, on the other hand, offers round-trip tickets ranging from $50 to $150 for flights that last little more than one hour. JetBlue’s example illustrates Amtrak’s continuing...
...Shoes,” as the camera cuts back and forth between parallel scenes of two mobile pairs of shoes cleverly establishing the personalities of their owners. It’s an allusion to the preface of Hitchcock’s “Strangers on a Train?? (and no accident either—Hanson’s 1990 film “Bad Influence” drew heavily from the film), and a bit of bravado direction that sharply highlights the movie’s central metaphor...