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...Person of the Year issue and Obama's ascent to the presidency: Your article not only praised the skill of the campaign but compared him to F.D.R., who became President during the Great Depression. I recall Roosevelt's famous "There's nothing to fear but fear itself" speech. I was a youngster living in New York at that time. There was no TV in those days, but it seemed that every radio was tuned in to hear F.D.R.'s speech. You could walk down the streets of the city and hear F.D.R.'s voice. It was like being among...
...much worse than my own, was completely unacceptable under the circumstances. A few of my already few classmates gave me commiserating looks as I coped with these new feelings, which led me to watch CNN on my laptop all night (and maybe also tear up while watching the acceptance speech with my American flatmates at the breakfast table the next morning).Now it is the last day of class. I am shivering outside the behemoth shadow of the Facultad with friends and classmates from Spain, Mexico, Italy, and Virginia. We are waiting for the bus and talking politics again, this...
...Raúl two years ago. Despite the deleterious effects of the economic blockade on the island in place since John F. Kennedy’s administration, the regime’s economic decisions have not created tangible benefits beyond healthcare and literacy. Poverty remains widespread, education limited, and free speech censored; barges still head from Havana to Miami, not the other way around. After the 1990s reforms, Cuba has a dual economy where those who cannot access currency convertible into U.S. dollars cannot afford basic necessities. As a result, incentives are so perverted that one can see women with Ph.Ds...
...don’t want to mess that up.Harvard Salient: Bros, you were totally the front runner for our free-wheeling prose until we discovered your comp process involved us getting a gay marriage and then being stoned nearly to death while we recite Obama’s convention speech and you scream racial epithets at us.The Crimson Arts Board: We would love the opportunity to be free from editorial constraints seeing as no one would read us enough to be offended.Harvard Independent: You’d let us say “dickswamp,” right?Satire...
...vast majority of videos on the House and Senate YouTube channels will probably inspire far less emotion, as they're really meant to give legislators another forum to communicate with voters. "You can host a floor speech, a press conference, a town hall - you can really do a lot with this medium," says Hammill. True, but we're going to bet that not a lot of viewers will forward clips of a town hall...