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...SPENT YEARS AS A CORPORATE BIG SHOT, AND NOW YOU'RE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE SUMMER JOB? Operating a Mister Softee ice cream truck. That lasted three months. And, yes, I tasted what I was selling. I like that product...
Gephardt began his talk with a brief recounting of his upbringing as the son of a milk truck driver in St. Louis...
Martin Amis wants a vodka Negroni. It is--for the record--a drink composed of vodka, Campari and sweet vermouth, but the waitress at this rather expensive New York City hotel bar has never heard of it. Meanwhile, a man in a large and loudly beeping truck is trying--over the course of five deafening minutes--to parallel park in the spot right next to Amis' sidewalk table. Amis, 54, observes the scene coolly, a small, neat man, the picture of amused British resignation. If nothing else, he can take satisfaction in the fact that the whole scene, a cosmic...
...SENTENCED. IYMAN FARIS, 34, Ohio truck driver, to 20 years in prison for supporting al-Qaeda and plotting to attack the Brooklyn Bridge; by a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia. U.S. officials said Faris, a Kashmir-born naturalized U.S. citizen, admitted to meeting Osama bin Laden at a camp in Afghanistan in 2000 and later talked with an al-Qaeda leader in Karachi, Pakistan about severing the suspension cables of the Brooklyn Bridge. In 2003 he sent a coded message to an al-Qaeda operative that "the weather is too hot," meaning he didn't expect the plot to succeed...
...remove a body from a car that had been set on fire. Chauvière and his team, sweltering in their black suits in the 100 degree heat, cut open the sides of the car with an acetylene torch and crawled into the burnt-out truck...