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...popularity with travelers, the U.S. Shuttle has incurred the wrath of Cambridge taxi drivers and their friends on the Cambridge City Council. Many taxi drivers have complained that they are losing $50 to $100 a day to the shuttle service. For this reason, the City Council has been opposed to the shuttle from day one. The only reason the shuttle has been able to operate at all is that the council has heretofore been powerless to stop it, since the company is licensed by the state of Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Wrong To Oppose Shuttle | 12/4/1996 | See Source »

Iwas lucky. When I showed my editor what I had originally sent in, he actually liked it, and the two-week lapse had curbed his wrath. I was publicly exonerated at the magazine, just as I had been publicly condemned two weeks before. When I returned, I was greeted with friendly slaps on the back, the criticism redirected toward the Times. But I will never forget the supreme irony of the moment: A writer and a fact-checker, I was dragged through the dirt by force of words and misrepresented facts! I will also never forget that my exoneration...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Dangers of the Printed Word | 11/22/1996 | See Source »

...year limit on benefits and, as part of her Personal Responsibility Act, complete prohibition on welfare to minor mothers. Seastrand, a devout Christian, is ardently pro-life and anti-gay and sometimes spices her politics with fire and brimstone, once calling California's quakes, floods and fires "God's wrath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...example, on Aug. 16 one of Farrakhan's top aides, Minister Tony Muhammad, prophesied that within 30 days "the wrath of God will show itself in a major earthquake" because the Muslims had been evicted from their Western regional headquarters in Inglewood, California. This may be the first time since the Old Testament that anyone has called on the Lord to get involved in a real estate dispute--and set a deadline for his seismic intervention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A FOOL AND HIS MONEY | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...bill in its present form hits his desk before the August recess. If he vetoes it--which is likely, according to senior adviser George Stephanopoulos--the G.O.P. can argue that he "talks right and negotiates left." If he signs it, he will face the wrath of party liberals at the convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORKING OUT WELFARE | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

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