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Reporting from a paranoia-mad communist country has never been easy, and these days Cuba is a more difficult assignment than ever. Most journalists do the prescribed, unenlightening rounds of officialdom in Havana, sneak off to see a few dissidents, then interview cab drivers or disgruntled locals in food lines. Honesty is like bread -- a commodity on rations. Oppenheimer, a Pulitzer-prizewinning correspondent for the Miami Herald, found a way around this difficulty: he carried letters from Cubans in Miami to relatives on the island, thus gaining their trust. As a result, he captures a truer, if sadder, portrait...
...beaten to death, another minority enterprise has sprung up. It is a makeshift stand selling $5 and $10 T shirts emblazoned with the slogan: JUSTICE FOR THE LA 4. LET MY PEOPLE GO. And who are the L.A. 4? They are the very men who ripped Denny from the cab of his truck, then robbed, bludgeoned and kicked him senseless on the afternoon that the riots began...
There's no excuse for leaving Harvard without ever setting foot in one of the oldest and most fascinating metropolises in America. Fleeting images of skyscrapers, the townhouses in Back Bay and the Boston side of the Charles River on you cab ride from Logan Airport simply...
...cab] company owners definitely got touchy at the thought of losing the extra $1 billion in revenues that the medallions brought in," Gellert says...
Gellert concluded by suggesting that the $23 million dead weight loss, an economic term for wasted resources, could be avoided by getting rid of the taxi cab medallions...