I clean out my office every 20 years or so, whether it needs it or not. Memories, not just clouds of dust, get stirred. Yesterday morning, I came across an artifact from the telecommunications revolution: Libya’s ballot in the 2003 election of the inaugural board of the international communications company, Intelsat Ltd. The document confirmed my recollection that the country’s maximum leader, Colonel Moammar Qaddafi, had personally cast all 1,373,469 of Libya’s votes against me.
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