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...stop. Four people are standing around a white, early-'70s Volvo. They're out of gas; can we help? Yes, yes, we say, of course. They want to siphon from our tank. They have an actual siphon right there. We don't have enough, we say, noticing that we're almost out ourselves. We'll take them to the next town. Another man, Esteban, about 19, gets in the back seat, as does Marisa, 24, petite, in silk blouse and black jeans. They hold the gas container on their laps. It's 15 minutes to tiny-town Roda...
...taxi. They fill up the Volvo while we wait. We meet the third passenger, Dale, an English-speaking med student from St. Kitts, who decides he's sick of speaking Spanish, so he'll ride to Cienfuegos with us. He's studying Spanish there, the first year of seven he'll spend in Cuba on his way to a medical degree. We follow the taxi into Cienfuegos, drop off Dale at his barbed wire-surrounded dormitory, check into a hotel with red light bulbs and a lounge singer plowing through the high points of the Billy Joel songbook...
...Rescue units responded to a motor vehicle accident at the intersection of Mass. Ave and Garden Street. A Volvo had flipped on its back, pinning the driver inside...
...best friend and I were walking in the hallway and my assistant principal was like "Oh my God." And we said "What?" And he said, "There's been this terrible accident outside. This car just swiped the side off of this gray Volvo." She had a gray Volvo. We went outside and the car was fine. He had a big old laugh. So we said "We're gonna get you." So we got about ten football players, a bunch of tissue, tape, shaving cream and streamers. And we wrapped them around his truck. And we had football players pick...
...Plenty. No obscenities, obviously, but also no competitors. Reebok, Adidas, Converse, Fila and DKNY are out (though you can use Hilfiger and FCUK). Otherwise, the censorship seems arbitrary. You can have Chevy or Mercedes on your sneakers but not Ford, Saturn or Volvo. Strangely, Nike also banned the word Jordan--and the word TIME...