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...hope to serve as spokesmen to tell you the truth about our communities," Miguel Romero, a community organizer, told the Global Exchange group in Petare. "With other governments we had to keep our mouths closed. But this president has given us the power to fight." Romero tells the Americans that Chavez has helped eradicate illiteracy in the barrio, assisted residents fighting to get legal titles to their land and supported cooperatives that are helping more people get work. His neighbor, who lacked a basic education but now studies under a government-sponsored education program, says she will soon be working...
...darkness, with only a muesli bar to share between them, before rescuers using imaging equipment made the startling discovery that the pair were still alive. Webb and Russell were still trapped eight days later, when Time went to press, but in the meantime they apparently kept cracking jokes. Spokesmen relayed that Russell had asked for a newspaper to be sent down to him: he was keen to start looking for a new job. He was also expecting to be paid overtime for his extended shift. And both men wanted to be out in time to play for their local footy...
...them, medically, in the months and years ahead, it might pay to take little notice of the levity they showed in the midst of it. Sandy McFarlane, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Adelaide, suggests that to maintain the morale of rescuers and the miners' families, mine spokesmen emphasized the pair's lightheartedness, while gathered media lapped it up because it added color to what was already a remarkable tale of survival. "I wondered," McFarlane says, "whether the story we were getting was saying more about the state of mind of the journalists than of the miners." When...
...noting, ?In this country, celebrity trumps ideology.?) He is a kind of crucial figure, for he straddles a span that continues to shrink: the space between politicians who want to be more TV-friendly and comedians who have, in the absence of any charisma among elected Democrats, become the spokesmen for the American Left...
...Though the severity of the battle was played down by official U.S. military spokesmen, officers on the ground tell a different story. "It lasted for about seven hours after we arrived, so the enemy was pretty determined. They did not just fade away," says the MiTT team chief Major Chuck Markos, whose men were hit with flurries of rocket propelled grenades and small arms fire. "It was significant." The exchanges lasted until shortly before lunch. By mid-day, the district was boarded up, bereft of traffic or life, but quiet. The next morning at about 6 a.m., hostilities started again...