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...items in a society where the average salary is $100 a month."They are taking milk away from seven-year-olds," said Ramon Leiva, 33, a Havana Linotypist. Others spoke of greater surveillance, fewer freedoms and just plain boredom. "The repression has increased," noted Landa. "They ask for your ID card everywhere. They're always watching you. People are afraid to talk. There's no spirit...
...snatcher. But, on the other hand, if a white person were identified three times as a purse snatcher (as Ezera was), there is no evidence that he would not also have been arrested. In fact, from the defendant's statement, "I felt sure that when I flashed my Harvard ID, that would be it," it appears that he was more disappointed that a prestigious name could not keep him out of court. So if neither Ezera's arrest nor his subsequent acquittal was based on judicial prejudices, where is the blatant racism...
Ezera's case as first publicized was shocking. How could this happen to a Harvard student? Ezera told a crowd of supporters at a pretrial rally Wednesday night, "I felt sure that when I flashed my Harvard ID, that would be it. When they handcuffed me, I realized this was serious...
...quest for tranquillity, some of them are dunking themselves, in total darkness and aloneness, for an hour or more at a time in small tanks filled with 250 gal. of 93.5° salt water. Why? To achieve, through "sensory deprivation," surcease from tension, reconciliation with the id, relief from jet lag, hangover, back pain or nicotine withdrawal, for rediscovery of the womb, a flow of delta brain waves-or just a snooze. The experience might be called the caviar of self-indulgence. Float tanks, as they are called, originated on the West Coast. The idea behind them was developed...
They even hired a former police officer to introduce them to the gamy underworld of New York pickpockets and ID-card fixers. Gaddafi was selected as the fictional blackmailer, explains Lapierre, "because he was not susceptible to [U.S.] reprisals, having such a small population and all that sand...