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...CELL PHONES $120 Activation fee in Cuba for a cell-phone service, which ordinary citizens were allowed to join for the first time on April 14 $240 Average annual wage for state workers in Cuba. Despite the relative expense, cell-phone sales have been brisk...
...stark. Indeed, there is plenty to separate them, particularly their views of the Iraq war. But there is also much to unite them, especially at this moment in both their careers. They share a taste for straight talk and simple truths as weapons against doubt and denial: on stem-cell research, abortion and religious violence, they are brothers in arms. "We need your message to reject the dictatorship of relativism," Bush said in his welcome, "and embrace a culture of justice and truth...
...Perhaps that’s because Snow has assumed a lifestyle that’s not far off from Rakowitz’ (except for the homicide bit). In recent years, Snow has gained notoriety for being as elusive as he is shocking. He doesn’t have a cell phone or a computer, has purposely impaled his doorbell with a screwdriver so as not to be bothered, and uses a periscope perched on his window to verify the identities of those who knock. He is perhaps best known as either the subject or photographer of illicit acts. Almost...
...conman. Assuming and shedding identities the way one might try on a pair of jeans, Hogue successfully parlayed his way into one of the country’s most highly esteemed universities and the homes of some of the wealthiest Americans, before eventually being caught and sentenced to a cell block in Arizona.In 1988, Hogue enrolled at Princeton as a self-taught ranch hand from Utah named Alexi Indris-Santana. While at Princeton, Hogue excelled at track, obtained outstanding grades, and joined the elite Ivy Club. However, Hogue had already done time in jail—in fact, had deferred...
...scribe since he resigned as Cuba's President earlier this year because of health problems, leaving Raul to become the government's new No. 1 two months ago. Since then, Raul, 76, has ordered a series of small but significant economic reforms, from letting Cubans own cell phones to allowing farmers to till their own land - ideas that Fidel doesn't always find communist kosher. In a brief article published this week in the government mouthpiece Granma, Fidel takes issue with the idea, posited recently by a Cuban columnist in another official newspaper, that Raul's changes are progress compared...