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...first blast came at 8:51 a.m. London time aboard an Underground train between Moorgate and Liverpool Street stations, near the city’s financial district. Seven people died in that attack, according to London police...
...cacophonous chorus of three different alarms, each placed strategically around my room so as to be out of easy reach. By the time I dragged myself out of bed, I had a pulsating headache that would last until lunchtime thanks to the jarring sound of screeching, badly maintained train brakes out my window. Nevertheless, I managed to get showered and dressed in time to make it to my train (no time for breakfast, though), and I arrived at Grand Central terminal without incident (except a splitting headache, of course). As usual, I brushed past the crowds of gawking tourists, propelled...
Maybe it’s an ingrained cautiousness in subways. Maybe it’s the psychological urge to follow the crowd. But more likely, I think, the force that turns us into Lemmings on the train or subway—the melting pot within the melting pot of an American city—is the fear of the unknown. The fear that the invisible dykes that we erect around our lives to give ourselves a sense of security will somehow be perforated if we show our humanity in unfamiliar environs...
What of the friendship among the three men? In 2002 Abramoff came to see Reed as competition and cut him off the Choctaw gravy train. "He is a bad version of us! No more money for him," Abramoff wrote Scanlon. Norquist was still standing by Abramoff last week, in a way. "I've known Jack for a long time," he said. "He's never approached me for anything improper. But we have led very different lives over the last 20 years." --With reporting by Greg Fulton and Greg Land/Atlanta and Viveca Novak/ Washington
...month ago, Harvard students leaving Boston for the summer had only one way to trek to the airport on public transportation: take the Red Line inbound from Harvard, switch to the Green Line eastbound at Park Street, switch to the Blue Line outbound at Government Center, ride that train to the Airport stop, and then take a free shuttle bus to the correct terminal...