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...Rabinowitz and Boudin added Cuba to their client roster after a poolside game of chess in Havana with Che Guevara. A few years later, Rabinowitz successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that Cuba was entitled to funds from the sale of products formerly owned by a U.S. citizen. Rabinowitz...
...Joan Claybrook The President of Public Citizen and former head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) talks about the merits of having black boxes in cars...
...Youdecide2007.org invites voters to become "citizen journalists," posting first-hand reports from electorates. But when an M.P.'s outburst on the site about "financially illiterate" young people turned up in federal Parliament, it was a reminder that the Web also bites. Perhaps the campaign's most talked-about online moment is a video clip of Rudd, apparently eating his own earwax several years ago in Parliament. The embarrassing footage has been reported on around the world, and downloaded almost half a million times. There are rich pickings in this new age of online politics, but plenty of pitfalls...
...earnest tone of a teacher aching for his students to understand, Kotlikoff creates a stark picture of our looming financial straits. The "fiscal gap," or difference between what social programs cost and the money the government is bringing in to pay for them, is now about $230,000 per citizen...
...government. But few places bring quite as much passion to the day-to-day problems of city life as Cambridge does. Case-in-point: the rat problem. Though the councillors themselves have rarely delved into discussions of the city’s rodent infestation in the past two years, citizen speakers are often eager to bring the pest problem to the councillors’ attention. The Cambridge Department of Public Works (DPW) operates a rat hotline, where citizens can report rat sightings or get help keeping rats from entering their house. DPW also has a Web site with frequently asked...