Underground Man

After read­ing Dunstan’s humor­ous post on British rail, and the silly responses he received from Amer­i­cans and Ger­mans, I was reminded of an excel­lent arti­cle by William Finnegan in the New Yorker last week, Under­ground Man: Can the former C.I.A. agent who saved New York’s subway get the Tube back on track?

After scour­ing the New Yorker web site and Google with­out luck, I decided it was worth scan­ning and post­ing the arti­cle. Sorry they’re jpgs… I prob­a­bly won’t leave it up very long (file size/bandwidth), unless some­one can sug­gest a way to extract the text of the article.

I’m your public library.

UPDATE 9/12/2005: I changed my direc­tory secu­rity a while back, so these arti­cles have not been linked. Here ya go:

February 12, 2004 » Tags: , , , , , , , . » 4 Comments

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  • Sverrir
    February 13, 2004 at 3:19 pm
    OCR should do the trick.
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  • Nicholas
    February 14, 2004 at 3:08 pm
    Thanks, Sver­rir. If you have a good OCR capa­bil­ity, would you please get the arti­cle as a text file and post it here. I saw the arti­cle in my dentist’s office, and I agree that it’s really good. Thanks
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  • Nedward
    February 15, 2004 at 12:35 pm

    Yea, I don’t have OCR… quite expen­sive stuff.

    Seems like when you buy an all-in-one HP printer and scan­ner, it should come with OCR software… but it doesn’t.
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  • Sverrir
    February 15, 2004 at 6:08 pm

    I’m sorry to say that I don’t have it as I sold my scan­ner last year with the CD, no back­ups left of the software ;)

    But that was an inex­pen­sive scan­ner I bought back in the year Y2K so I fig­ured that some OCR capa­bil­i­ties came with every scan­ner now­days.
    Guess I was wrong :(
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