The Chinese National Who Was Carjacked by Boston Marathon Bombers

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Eric Moskowitz, A Fearful, Surreal 90-Minute Ride; Carjacking victim tells of enduring and fleeing his two captors, alerting police. Boston Globe, Apr 26, 2013 (front page, top article).
http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/ ... 6KtMHJNN/story.html

My comment:
(a) From Apr 18 (Thursday) on, law enforcement stated the carjacking started at City of Cambridge, Massachusetts. But on Apr 25, law enforcement "corrected," saying it actually started at
Brighton, Boston.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton,_Boston
(Brighton separated from Cambridge in 1807 after a bridge dispute[, renamed itself Brighton that year] and was later annexed to Boston, in 1874)  

* History of Brighton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Brighton
(section 1 Etymology)

(b) "After a zigzagging trek through Brighton, Watertown, and back to Cambridge, Danny would seize his chance for escape at the Shell Station on Memorial Drive."

Memorial Drive (Cambridge)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Drive_(Cambridge)
(runs along the north bank of the Charles River)

(c) "The SUV headed for the lights of Soldiers Field Road, banking across River Street to the two open gas stations."
* Soldiers Field Road
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldiers_Field_Road
(in Brighton)
* bank (vi):
"2a : to incline an airplane laterally
b (1) : to incline laterally (2) : to follow a curve or incline <skiers banking around the turn>"
* banked turn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banked_turn

(d) "Tamerlan peeled off $50."

peel off (phrasal verb):
"peel off $20/fifty pounds etc  informal to take a piece of paper money from the top of a pile of paper money <Manville peeled off a twenty, and pressed it into the man's hand>"
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, undated.
http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/peel_1

* Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon ... ontemporary_English
* Longman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longman
(founded in 1724 in London by Thomas Longman (1699-1755); acquired by Pearson in 1968)

(e) The Chinese heard "Manhattan" in the conversation between the brothers, while talking to each other in a foreign language. That prompted Amtrak to stop train service between Boston and New York City on Apr 19 (Friday), the day of man hunt. Since, law enforcement officials and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg have given conflicting accounts about what it meant and whether Manhattan was a next bombing target.