on february 3, 2008, the new york giants defeated the new england patriots.17-14, in super bowl xlii, preventing the patriots from becoming the first team to post a perfect 19-0 record in a full american professional football season.
on february 19, fidel castro resigned as president of cuba, after 49 years. in 2006, he had handed over power “temporarily” to his brother raul because of his failing health. raul now assumed the presidency. fidel retained his position as first secretary of the communist party of cuba.
on march 2, dmitri medvedev was elected president of russia, succeeding vladimir putin, who was prevented from succeeding himself by the terms of the russian constitution. putin now assumed the title and duties of prime minister.
on may 13, johnny wilson, who had been one of the last persons in the united states not to own a personal computer, finally purchased one. his two brief marriages had cured him of interest in women, but his unfortunate experience with hank browning and the phoenix ashes brigade had not cured him of patriotism. what he had read of the internet in the newspapers and seen about it on tv led him to believe he might use it to find another band of patriotic brothers, perhaps even one directly rivaling the phoenix ashes brigade.
johnny also thought that jenny might enjoy the computer, but she showed little interest and professed herself unable to “get the hang of” it. deeply depressed by the forced departure of kim, she found solace in watching increasing amounts of religious programming on television. she particularly enjoyed the preaching of pastor joel osteen, of the lakewood church in houston, texas.
on november 4, senator barack obama of illinois became the first african-american elected president of the united states.
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