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Though his staff assistant said that “people like Craig are usually not available at the drop of a hat,” Venter summed up his motivations for joining the initiative in a very short phone interview yesterday, before jetting off to India. Venter said that the group he is joining is “incredible” and that this is what made the prospect of coming to Harvard “attractive...
...direct impact on my art. I can't stay indifferent. Either I get involved or I lose," she says, sitting in her office that she has temporarily converted into the Artists' Headquarters of Reformists. For her plan of action, Hekmat spent one and a half days on the phone and got the signatures of more than 170 of some of Iran's most renowned film people on a pro-reform statement - the first time that a collective statement by artists has been issued in support of a political coalition in Iran. The communiqué states in part, that the cultural...
...public administration or a school or hospital. By the time I grew up, votes were typically sold for far less: telephone and electricity bills paid for the two months before and one month after an election. In the last few ballots, the new bait has been the cell phone. Someone shows up and gives you one before the election, and you can keep it if you come back with a photo on this new, shiny handset showing your ballot marked for the right candidate. The phones, which are worth about $75 apiece, are even conveniently set up to snap...
...French constitution included the right to insurrection. Perhaps the moment has arrived in Italy to exercise the right to be fed up. To rediscover a true democratic choice. To make the most of our votes, instead of swapping our very destiny for nothing more than a new cell phone. Italy's future is worth a whole lot more than that...
...darker note, Telpuk has received a series of threats. "I get death threats on the phone," she says. "Also, one day I arrived home and there was a bunch of yellow roses waiting for me. I thought it was a secret admirer." But when she looked at the note, Telpuk read: "Enjoy them while you can, because you won't be able to once you're in a coffin." Good thing she learned to shoot in the police academy...