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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...
...People were just getting together on their own," remembers Tom, 60, a brown-eyed man with a cropped mustache. "I guess you could call it grass roots." Like thousands of others, Tom downloaded phone lists so he could cold-call potential supporters in the area. Mary spent hours typing names and addresses into Obama's national database. The first paid operatives finally arrived in the area weeks later, only to find a virtually organized Obama machine already up and running. When the campaign held its first statewide training sessions in March, some 2,000 people turned...
When I was staying here prefrosh weekend, my host was this really nice, really mellow guy. I had a flight home at 10:15 in the morning, but by mistake I put my phone on vibrate when I went to bed. Turns out my host just never came back to his room that night, and I missed my flight home... It was entirely his fault...
Indeed, the irony is that while Obama may have never been your average Joe, until joining the Senate just three years ago he was something pretty close to it: driving his own cars, answering his own phone, cooking his famous chili for friends and still paying off his student loans. By contrast, Hillary Clinton has been in Washington for more than a decade and John McCain, who has also thrown a few elitist jabs Obama's way, has been there more than two decades...
...much about it. Many would argue that with the unprecedented complexities of determining enemy actions in the War on Terror, the ordinary procedures of establishing crime may not be effective and that some liberties must be forsaken for increased homeland security. Perhaps allowing the government to monitor your phone calls is prudent if it prevents future terrorist attacks.However, American citizens should be aware of the record of its government’s record abroad when there is no constitutional or judicial oversight over their actions. A government that disregards human values abroad, engages in torture, and arbitrarily detains people without...