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Popov also is among the newest athlete members of the IOC, joining German fencer Claudia Bokel, Cuban volleyball player Yumilka Ruiz Luaces, and Korean taekwondo fighter Moon Dae Sung. They'll serve eight-year terms. (Boston Globe -- Sports)
ELECTION 2008: McCain: Rebel with a cause chases the presidency Aug 31, 2008
He d been poised to fly into combat from the deck of the USS Enterprise during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He d knocked down power lines flying too low over southern Spain. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
For those too young to remember the Cold War... Aug 29, 2008
After the world reached the brink of war during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, there was another wave of Cold War-inspired fiction, with Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove perhaps the most notable example. With the detente of the 1970s the Cold War thread became less noticeable, but with worsening relations in the early 1980s, both sides of the Atlantic were suddenly replete with fictional Cold War dystopian scenarios. (BBC News -- UK)
POP CULTURE HOT LIST: Athletes, celebs making headlines Aug 27, 2008
Angel Matos The Cuban taekwando athlete and his coach may be suspended from the Olympics for life after Matos kicked a referee in the face in Beijing last week, but there's always room for two in the WWE, where you can actually make a living. 9. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
LETTERS: NCT, Aug, 22, 2008 Aug 23, 2008
HotJobs Local Search. Can you smell that smell. (North County Times)
One-man melting pot makes up the one-man team for Mexico Aug 21, 2008
At Mexican restaurants back home, waitresses ask if he is Cuban after he orders in Spanish. Today in Sports. (International Herald Tribune -- Sports)
Jenkins' 3-Dot Lounge Aug 16, 2008
For pure athleticism, though, they can't touch the women in volleyball (check out the Cuban team), gymnastics or track. If every great female athlete were forced to play basketball, that game would be played way above the rim. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
LETTERS: NCT, August 14, 2008 Aug 15, 2008
" Huh? This from the one person who, more than any other, twists ancient history such as Vietnam, the Cuban Missile Crisis and errors from Truman or FDR to hold against current Democratic candidates? Oh boy! Just imagine if the shoe were on the other foot, no one would be howling more loudly that hatchet-man "sdraoul. "Peace (and sunshine) to all, DD Wiz The Californian wrote on Aug 14, 2008 9:30 AM:Which argument are you referring to? Chuck wrote on Aug 14, 2008 9:33 AM:>>>Going to read-up more... (North County Times)
Up close with Penelope Cruz: Actress poised for breakout with two new films Aug 14, 2008
The film opens Friday and goes up against Cruz's other project, "Elegy," an intimate adaptation of Philip Roth's novella "The Dying Animal." Cruz is Consuela, a Cuban student who falls in love with her much older and very conflicted professor (Ben Kingsley). Cruz has been doing publicity nonstop for both movies on both coasts. (Carroll County Times, MD)
Penelope Cruz is poised for breakout Aug 12, 2008
Cruz is Consuela, a Cuban student who falls in love with her much older and very conflicted professor (Ben Kingsley). Cruz has been doing publicity non-stop for both movies on both coasts. (USA Today)
The arts belong in foreign policy Aug 11, 2008
It is legitimate to ask why $3,000 was spent in 2006-07 on sending Michel Bastarache, then a Supreme Court judge, to tell Cuban law professors about Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It may well have been a constructive use of his time and the $3,000, but it fit awkwardly inside an arts program. (Globe and Mail -- National)
• Santeria priest won't let religious freedom be sacrificed Aug 11, 2008
But before he could finish the ritual sacrifice, Coral Gables police swarmed the house where he and some 20 other followers of the Afro-Cuban religion had gathered to worship ... He is a proud member of the Cuban American bourgeoisie and a Republican ... He added: "This is how I see it, man. This is a white little Cuban guy talking, OK?". (Q13.com, WA)
Shall we dance?HRPAC presents Tango on the Hudson Aug 10, 2008
"Some of the musicians and dancers are from Argentina and most of us are from Latin America. My partner is from Brazil and another one of the dancers is from Colombia and his partner is Cuban.". In the family. (West New York Reporter, NJ)
Cruz gets art-history naked and Kingsley is brilliant in "Elegy" Aug 9, 2008
She's a Cuban immigrant from a conservative background who looks and dresses like a high-end legal secretary, which is what she was before deciding to pursue an academic career. Whether or not it's because the director is a Spanish woman, this is Cruz's breakthrough English-language performance. (Salon)
TALE OF THE TAPE: Pairing up Michael Phelps vs. Aquaman Aug 8, 2008
Mark Cuban vs. John Travolta. Bruce Springstein vs. George Steinbrenner. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
Letters to the Editor Aug 7, 2008
Cuban youth movements stay politically active ... Cuban youth want both economic and political liberty, not just iPods. (Christian Science Monitor)
Hispanic residents find area 'bueno' Aug 7, 2008
A Cuban immigrant who has been in the country for 14 years, she said felt the sting - whether real or perceived - of discrimination. "Sometimes I'm afraid to be in my house, you know?" she said. (Florida Times-Union)
Tough, sullen stretch for Braves Aug 6, 2008
The Cuban Missile Crisis didn t get this kind of attention. By JEB. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Motos new cell chief: tech guy with engineering view Aug 5, 2008
Motorola names a new head for its struggling cell phone business, Mark Cuban wins backing for Cubs bid from an unlikely source, United calls a truce with its pilots. Advertising. (Crain's Chicago Business)
Rapid growth for Spanish-speaking news Aug 5, 2008 Otto Fuerbringer, 97; led Time during a 'newsy decade' Aug 2, 2008 Best bets for the week Aug 1, 2008 Hard times at Turner Field Jul 31, 2008 Cuba approves first therapeutic vaccine for lung cancer Jul 30, 2008 Art: Watch the children, that subversive is back Jul 29, 2008 Cameroonian ballet meets Argentine tango Jul 29, 2008 Ask the pilot Jul 25, 2008 POLITICS HITS THE WALL... Jul 25, 2008 Stateside Vacation Spots Offer International Flavor, Flair Jul 24, 2008 Ry Cooder keeps L.A. sound alive Jul 24, 2008 Dark Skin Complex: Let's Get Over It! Jul 19, 2008 SanDisk Sponsors Rock the Bells 2008 International Music Festival Series Jul 19, 2008 Planet Obama, Voter ID Jul 13, 2008 Fitzsimmons: What a wicked Web we've weaved. Or is it woven? Jul 13, 2008 Principles vs. ideas Jul 13, 2008 Eighth Chinese Cultural Festival held in Cuba Jul 13, 2008 ‘Outsiders’ exhibit their art at Menil’s ‘NeoHooDoo’ Jul 8, 2008 Jesse Helms, former senator, conservative icon, dies Jul 6, 2008 Rachel Kushner's 'Telex From Cuba' Jul 5, 2008 Quotables by Ajami, Bush, Osama, etc. Jul 4, 2008 How to fight our gun-obsessed culture? Burn your copy of 'The Godfather' and push for a $20 tax on each bullet sold Jul 4, 2008 Kristin Scott Thomas, Britney Spears, Peter Sarsgaard Jul 1, 2008 Bush Well-Received at National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast Jun 29, 2008 COLUMN: Right-wing Republicans' claim to contrary, they're embracing 'Big Brother' Jun 26, 2008 Escobar still learning to temper emotions | Braves Jun 26, 2008 Cuba: Remains of the Revolution Jun 25, 2008 Cuban missile crisis: Staying steady Jun 20, 2008 Baseball CityHow the Dominican Republic changed the face of US baseball Jun 19, 2008 Now DEMS are all about border security... Jun 18, 2008 Egypt Takes Strides To Stop Smoking Jun 17, 2008 It's hard to know what to believe after review of Ben Stein's movie Jun 17, 2008 50 essential cds from around the world Jun 15, 2008 Friends for faraway places Jun 14, 2008 Cuban Dance in Vancouver, Canada Jun 14, 2008 The Cuban missile crisis: What you know is wrong Jun 14, 2008 He was wrong, but he was great. Jun 14, 2008 When Did You Last See Your Father? Jun 14, 2008 Island native says museum's art should be returned to Cuba Jun 13, 2008 Cuban oil production could be a catalyst for a change in relations with U.S. Jun 13, 2008 Florida's secret beaches Jun 12, 2008 Identity fusion Jun 12, 2008 Beyond single malt Jun 11, 2008 LETTERS: NCT, June 9, 2008 Jun 10, 2008 Mom's on board, but it's no day at the beach Jun 8, 2008 My Brother Is An Only Child: Politics of brotherly love Jun 7, 2008 Gypsy Billy Joe Saunders on the road to boxing fame Jun 6, 2008 Starting with a clean slate Jun 2, 2008 Smoking curbs: The global picture Jun 1, 2008 The day of judgment, part two May 31, 2008 Roger Steffens and Peter Simon's 'Reggae Scrapbook' May 31, 2008 Hamas Loves Obama For a Reason May 29, 2008 Tijuana's 'CowParade' takes art to the people May 26, 2008 Clint Eastwood film shut out... May 26, 2008 Cuba has highest rate of 100-year-olds May 25, 2008 Soderbergh's spectacular "Che"-volution May 23, 2008 At Cannes, expectations, inevitably, are set too high May 23, 2008 Behold the power of the mojito May 23, 2008 "Dancing with the Stars" Season Finale Analysis May 22, 2008 Too Mu'Che' to Take? May 22, 2008 President Bush Discusses Cuba, Marks Day of Solidarity May 22, 2008 Fact Sheet: Promoting Democracy in Cuba May 22, 2008 Cuba to commute death sentences May 22, 2008 Raul Castro raises state pension May 22, 2008 Cuba loosens controls on hotels May 22, 2008
The old Cuban neighborhoods of Union City, N.J., now have Mexicans and other Central Americans. Most of the population growth has come in suburbs like Westchester County and Long Island. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Festival celebrates Hispanic heritage Aug 3, 2008
The opening reception for "ArtistaCUBA," an exhibition of Cuban art, will be held that night at Gallery 125 on South Warren Street ... The musicians Machuko's Trabuco will play Afro-Cuban music. (NJ.com -- Times)
The Cuban missile crisis, the Vietnam War, political assassinations, mass protests, and a roiling youth culture were the stuff of headlines and Time magazine cover stories during Mr. Fuerbringer's eight years as managing editor. His tenure marked a shifting, if not quite a liberalizing, of Time's political positions. (Boston Globe)
The show is at 7:30 p.m. today and features Jessica Pounds, Patrick Bass, Matthew "Cuban" Hernandez and Peter Dearing. Florida Theatre, 128 E. Forsyth St., $13. (Florida Times-Union)
I devoured many a Cuban sandwich down there when I was at GT. ... Best Cuban in the city. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Cuba has approved what is believed to be the world's first registered lung cancer vaccine and is offering it to Cuban and foreign patients in its hospitals ... "It's possible to provide this vaccine to any patient. Because it's available in Cuba, it's approved by the Cuban drug agency, so we can receive patients from outside.". (Yahoo News -- Cancer)
But then, few children's book authors in those wary cold war years made a habit of playing poker with the Cuban envoy to the United Nations, as Ungerer did, or applied for a visa to visit China. Or had a side career publishing books of often disturbing erotica. (International Herald Tribune)
Last but not least, Cuban music has its principal roots in Spain and West Africa, but over time has absorbed musical influences from many different countries. Cuban music has likewise been immensely influential in other countries, contributing not only to the development of jazz and salsa, but also to Argentina tango, Ghanaian high-life, West African Afrobeat, and Spanish Nuevo flamenco. (Xinhuanet, China)
Plus: Will U.S. airlines hit Cuban tarmac thanks to Obama ... Plus: Will U.S. airlines hit Cuban tarmac thanks to Obama. (Salon)
Power, pop, and probings from ABC News Senior National Correspondent Jake Tapper. is ABC News' Senior National Correspondent based in the network's Washington bureau. (The Drudge Report)
While staying at one of the many picturesque locations along Miami Beach, vacationers looking for some international flavor need only to jump in a cab and make the15-minute trek to the Cuban cultural center of Miami -- Little Havana. Colorful murals and monuments are scattered throughout Little Havana, honoring Cuba and its people, and the aroma of coffee, outdoor domino games and cigar rollers hard at work are all staples of this community. (Pekin Times, IL)
In the 1990s, Cooders interest in Cuban music also led him to collaborate with musician Juan de Marcos Gonzalez and others on the acclaimed album and documentary Buena Vista Social Club, recreating the music scene that flourished in pre-Communist Cuba. Earlier this year he produced Arvizus first solo album, Friend for Life. (MSNBC -- Music)
The woman worried about not being perceived as that black is Cuban. Her complexion is similar to that of the beautiful singer Angie Stone and just as flawless. (The Palm Beach Post)
This years festival series tour will pass through 10 major markets in North America, in addition to events in Europe and Asia, and feature stellar performances from many of hip-hops most notable names, including A Tribe Called Quest, NAS, Mos Def, De La Soul, Rakim, Method Man & Redman, Raekwon & Ghostface (Cuban Linx), Immortal Technique, Dead Prez, Murs, Kidz In The Hall, the reunited The Pharcyde and many others. Complete details can be found at. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Much in the same way that Kennedy navigated the Cuban Missle Crisis, by being willing to negotiate directly with the Soviets (albeit in a behind the scenes way). But at the same time that does not amaze me about Republicans, because Republicans never seek to research and understand their enemies. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Or even worse, a company run by Mark Cuban. Thus, we had the bust. (Longview Daily News, WA)
President John F. Ken nedy was a hard-liner on communism in the 1960s, but he put aside those principles during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Some hawks among his generals were unwilling to be flexible, but Ken nedy's creativity and willingness to contradict his formerly predictable stance may have saved the world. (NJ.com -- Times)
The festival, co-organized by Cuba's Ministry of Culture and the Chinese Embassy in Cuba, was held in the Cuban Exhibition Center in suburban Havana. Cuba's Deputy Minister of Culture Fernando Rojas attended the opening ceremony and said Cuba and China maintain good relations in the political, economic and cultural fields, and the annual Chinese Cultural Festival is testament to the ever-strengthening bilateral relations. (Xinhuanet, China)
Cuban Tania Bruguera, famous for wearing that butchered lamb, has a piece in Neohoodoo. So does performance artist Ana Mendieta. (Woodlands Villager, TX)
As a Republican member of the Foreign Relations Committee, the conservative senator was best known for pushing to withhold U.S. dues owed to the , opposing the 1977 treaty that ceded U.S. control of the Panama Canal and backing policies aimed at isolating Cuban leader. Helms tried in 1983 to filibuster legislation to make 's birthday a national holiday. (Newsday)
A large cast of latter-day colonials employ Cubans in their homes and import Jamaican workers for the hardest jobs; they dab on expensive Jean Patou Colony perfume, mix as little as possible with the natives - including Batista, who's a mulatto - and pride themselves on treating hirelings better than they think they have to. Surprisingly, racism turns out to be a two-way street, even in a country where the United Fruit Company controls the roads: Cubans think Americans are mongrels ... While... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Imprisoned Cuban physician and dissident Oscar Elias Biscet, awarded the Medal of Freedom in absentia, in a letter to his wife explaining why he will not accept freedom (as offered by the Castro regime) if he will agree to leave Cuba: My suffering is much, much less since I began to seek after my dream of being free, but not only for me personally. If I thought only of myself, you know that I would have been free a long time ago, and I would have been rid of these unsettling anxieties. (Townhall.com)
You'll have all the Cuban cigars you want. That's for sure. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Exactly 10 years ago, with a surprise hit album of obscure, prerevolutionary Cuban pop songs, the Buena Vista Social Club played a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall. Wim Wenders filmed the show for a documentary released a year later. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
To the mostly Hispanic audience, Bush honored those struggling against oppressive regimes, and he welcomed the brother of a Cuban lawyer and human rights activist who is under surveillance by the Cuban government. "The United States must always stand squarely with those who struggle for their human rights against tyranny," he said. (CNSnews.com)
The Question wrote on Jun 25, 2008 9:58 AM:" DUH,...It's an ELECTION year. Ya think maybe they might have had a lot of other stuff to report on? It doesn't take a television consultant to state the obvious. Sorry to poke holes in your right wing conspiracy theories.------------Thats right, Eddie. CNN has room for stories about melon-head whales, cardiology tips, in-flight email, a town that wants to ban sofas, a plagiarizing professor, Cuban surfers, bewildering spa moments, violence in Israel,... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Wren believes the Braves have the leadership Cox, hitting coach Terry Pendleton, bench coach Chino Cadahia (a fellow Cuban), Eddie Perez, and older teammates to make Escobar grasp the importance of playing with a little more control, not getting on the bad side of umpires, not getting tossed from games ... in Cuba, they teach you how to hate the umpire, hate the other team, hate everybody on the field N8 is Cuban ... Is it because Cubans hate. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Leonardo Padura Fuentes, author of popular detective novels, is engaged in animated conversation with the English academic Stephen Wilkinson, an expert on contemporary Cuban culture ... So one would imagine that Fidel's announcement would reverberate through the Cuban capital. (Concierge.com)
Any new entry in the crowded field of books on the 1962 Cuban missile crisis must pass an immediate test: Is it just another recapitulation, or does it increase our net understanding of this seminal Cold War event. By focusing on the activities of the American, Soviet and Cuban militaries during those tense October days, Michael Dobbs's "One Minute to Midnight" passes this test with flying colors. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The game arrived in the late 19th Century, brought by Cuban sugar mill-owners who fled their home after the abolition of slavery and established their plantations and their sporting passion in the Dominican Republic. Since then, it has worked its way into the fabric of Dominican life, creating a domestic sporting culture of unparalleled intensity. (BBC News -- Business)
where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another" Barry Hussein McGovern Party: NA Reply #7 Date: Jun. 17, 2008 - 8:08 AM EST MOST OF CONGRESS NEEDS REMOVED FROM OFFICE AND THEIR PENSIONS CUT AT LEAST TWO THIRDS. AND PAY HALF THEIR HEALTH CARE. GET RID OF THESE BUMS.jimbridger Party: Independent Reply #8 Date: Jun. 17, 2008 - 8:31 AM EST TeamPolitico: Jun. 17, 2008 - 4:25 AM EST Immigration remains a highly divisive political issue especially in the... (The Drudge Report)
(2:22)Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban refugee who was forcibly returned to Cuba has now joined the 'Young Communists. Kelly Cobiella reports on the reaction from Cuban Americans. (CBS News -- World)
"No one person has done more to bring down the American way of life than George W. Bush. Of course his oil buddies in both the USA and the House of Saud think he is the greatest.The truth - as we now know from the report released last week by Congress - is that there were many doubts about Sadaam and his WMD capabilities. Bush, Cheney and others basically lied to make it appear that there was no choice but war. The "inexperienced" Barack Obama was correct - while the liar George W. Bush, and his... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
The liquid sound of the West African night courtesy of the seminal Senegalese band (re-formed and now touring again) who magically adapted the local craze for Cuban sounds to the traditions of Wolof griot culture ... 22 A lo CubanoOrishasChrysalis, 2000 ... The Cuban hip hip outfit's debut proved that the Yankee imperialists across the Florida strait didn't have a monopoly on the genre. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Like Borges the chicken inspector, or like the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas exiled in New York, this most distinguished citizen and former director of the national library worked in a lowly capacity in his adopted country - as a doorman and a waiter. Though he lived for a decade after the end of military rule, Onetti never returned to Montevideo. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
The Cuban dance scene in Vancouver, Canada has officially been ignited. Vancouver residents, most known for their laid back attitudes and love of all things yoga, have been treated to the hot Cuban dance moves of Chen Lizra and her dance company Latidos Productions ... Cuban Dance Classes in Vancouver. (Suite101.com)
For my generation, the 13-day Cuban missile crisis in October 1962 was the big dog that, mercifully, did not bark ... Dobbs is too polite to say this, but the Kimovsk mistake is one of several that besmirches Harvard professor Graham Allison's career-making tome, "Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis," still a fixture on the political science syllabus ... As former John F. Kennedy Library historian Sheldon Stern points out in his 2003 book, "Averting 'The Final Failure': John... (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
So they have finally given Che Guevara a proper burial--the interment took place Oct. 17--in Cuban soil, in the town where he achieved his greatest revolutionary victory ... So in the Cuban tropics, too, there has just now been a day as beautiful as glory, cold as the tomb. (Slate)
On the way through, this filmmaker paints a wonderfully evocative family portrait set against the anxiety of the Cold War era, with particular attention to the weeks of the Cuban missile crisis. Blake's obsession with nuclear war on a disastrous rain-sodden camping trip with his dad is a fine correlative of adolescent angst. (Toronto Star)
DAYTONA BEACH -- Alberto Jones paused in front of Daniel Serra-Badue's 1941 painting, "Cuban Sweets," and smiled ... Then he turned to another painting in the Cuban Foundation Museum, at the Museum of Arts and Sciences, and frowned ... "My feelings are mixed. I'm proud about who we are, as Cubans, and angry because these works are here and not in Cuba, where they belong," he said. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Even then they can expect a fight from influential Cuban-American leaders, who argue that helping Cuba produce oil will aid the Cuban government and undermine the 46-year-old embargo's reason for being ... The U.S. Geological Survey has estimated the Cuban field holds at least five billion barrels of recoverable oil and 10 trillion cubic feet, or 280 billion cubic meters, of natural gas ... The Cuban field lies as much as six miles, or 9. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
Just don't call the food Cuban - you'll be quickly corrected. This cuisine is Nuevo Latino all the way, with a tapas-heavy menu and killer seafood. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
A Cuban expatriate, he left his burgeoning career as a jazz-fusion bassist to come to Canada, where there is next to no market for Latin music. He has since reinvented himself as a Spanish-singing guitarist-songwriter with the stage name Alex Cuba, even though his intimate voice isn't the clarion call typical of Cuban front men ... Cuban expatriate Alex Cuba, formerly Alexis Puentes, has settled in Smithers, B.C.. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Its featured drink at numerous venues around the city and at Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve was the Johnnie Walker Black Mojito, a variant of the Cuban highball traditionally made with lowly white Caribbean rum, only in this case using its, gulp, premium Black Label whisky. That's what consumers are saying, Surprise me,' said Michele D'Angelo, director of brown spirits for Diageo Canada. (Globe and Mail)
Chuck wrote on Jun 9, 2008 5:39 AM:The news is reporting that a top Cuban baseball player, Dayan Viciedo, has defected to the U.S. How can that be ... Simple Chuck wrote on Jun 9, 2008 8:16 AM:The Cuban ballplayer. (North County Times)
Cuban fare, including marinated lechon pork, palomilla, and paella. Entrees $7. (Boston Globe)
In the middle of a rainstorm, during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, he kneels and cries to God, "Let me die of pneumonia but convert Khrushchev!". Next stop is fascism, an ideological choice that heats up his rivalry with older brother Manrico (Riccardo Scamarcio), who is a Communist. (Toronto Star)
" Saunders was spotted by British coaches as a junior and earmarked for the London 2012 Olympics. However, he has taken the sport by storm and now looks a good bet for a welterweight medal four years ahead of schedule. His progress suffered a blip in Pescara, Italy, this year when he lost narrowly on points to Ukrainian Oleksandr Stretskyy in the semi-finals of an Olympic qualifier. It ended a 49-fight winning sequence that included beating Cuban number one Carlos Bantuer in Bulgaria this year.... (International Herald Tribune)
Random: To what extent (if any) do you think that Brayan Penas and Yunel Escobars Cuban connection will enhance Penas chances of making the Braves Major League roster. I would think it would be a big, if intangible, plus for him, to supplement his positional versatility. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
More than half of Cuban adults are thought to smoke, and 30% of preventable cancer deaths are said to be linked to smoking. Cuban leader Fidel Castro - a cigar aficionado in the early days of his left-wing revolution - kicked the habit in 1986 for health reasons. (BBC News -- Health)
In the vast literature the Cuban missile crisis has spawned - military, political, diplomatic - there is very little on its effect at the time on ordinary lives, in homes, school, and the workplace, on the fear and widespread numb incomprehension in the population at large ... Conflating these two events, Christopher Hitchens opened an essay on the Cuban missile crisis with the words - "Like everyone else of my generation, I can remember exactly where I was standing and what I was doing on the... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Ska, for instance, fused Cuban rhythms, Trinidadian calypso and American jazz and R&B with Jamaican folk music like mento, itself a blend of African and European strains. Jamaicans transformed sundry scraps into treasures, creating the aural equivalent of a scrapbook: post-colonialism with bass. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
In a column for Cuban newspapers, he wrote that Obama was "the most progressive candidate to the U.S. presidency." ( Progressive is Communist code for, well, Communist. Castro also criticized Obama for saying he'd continue the trade embargo against Cuba, but ole Fidel went on to say, "I am not questioning Obama's great intelligence, his debating skills, or his work ethic.". (Human Events Online)
Luis Garz;n, a Cuban artist who has lived in Tijuana since 2002, says CowParade will revitalize the city's arts scene. It takes the art out of the limited space of a gallery and places it in a public environment, says the creator of the Tr;nsito cow. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The four and a half hour portrait of Ernesto Guevara, the Argentine doctor who became a leader of the Cuban revolution, sharply divided the critics, whose support will be crucial to its chances. Similarly no American buyers had yet materialized for two other highly anticipated U.S. films, Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York," and James Gray's "Two Lovers," both of which also received mixed verdicts from the critics and were passed over by the jury. (The Drudge Report)
HAVANA: About 1,800 Cubans are over 100 years old, making it the country with the highest rate of centenarians, an expert said on Saturday. Eugenio Selman-Housein, chairman of the 120 Years Club and previously head of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro's medical team, also said "life expectancy has gone up to almost 80 years" on the communist-run Caribbean island ... There are "currently about 1,800 Cubans registered as over a century old," he said, according to the National Information Agency. (India Times)
In the two hours we watched before eating sandwiches (presumably the film that will be called "The Argentine"), Soderbergh leaps back and forth through the 1950s and '60s, from scenes of the young Guevara and Cuban exile Fidel Castro (Mexican actor Demi;n Bichir) in Mexico City as they plan a revolution to black-and-white faux-newsreel footage of Guevara's famous 1964 visit to New York as a Cuban government minister, where he attended high-society parties and spoke at the United Nations,... (Salon)
It follows Castro, Guevara and their comrades from 1956 to 1959, through the stages of their war to overthrow the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, and it dwells less on their motives and personalities than on matters of military procedure ... Though Guevara tried, in a new context, to apply the strategic lessons of the Cuban revolution - concentrate on the countryside; cultivate popular support; maintain discipline and cohesion in the ranks - everything went wrong. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
The minty rum-based cocktail, like Desi Arnaz, has done a lot to make Cuban culture cool in America. Enrique Carrillo has come to rely on the drink's magical pull -- not to mention Cuban food and music -- to bring business and political leaders together ... As a bank executive in Detroit, his annual "Pachanga Cubana" backyard barbecue drew such disparate partygoers as the Republican executive of Oakland County and Detroit's now-embattled Democratic mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick. (Washington Business Journal, DC)
Hip replacement might not be a problem: Didn't Mark Cuban have a hip replacement 6 weeks before the rehearsals started. - if Bo's was a couple of years ago, he should be good to go. (Washington Post)
This movie told the story of the Cuban revolutionary starting with his arrival from Argentina through a visit in December 1964 to America as a folk hero ... The first film, perhaps called Che (no one seems to know), spends most of its Cuban time in the woods where Che recruited revolutionary soldiers ... Too bad, since a really cool group of Cuban dancers and musicians entertained us on the red carpet at Cannes last night prior to and after the screening. (Fox News)
Thanks for coming to mark this Day of Solidarity with the Cuban People ... It is a day of sorrow, as we reflect on the continued oppression of the Cuban people ... We have hope because we see a day coming when Cubans will have the freedom of which they have dreamed for centuries -- the freedom that is the eternal birthright of all mankind. (White House News Releases)
Today, President Bush honored the Cuban people with the inaugural Day of Solidarity with the people of Cuba ... The President reiterated that the United States stands with the brave Cubans who are struggling make their nation democratic, prosperous, and just ... Today, President Bush called on the Cuban regime to make meaningful changes to improve the life for the Cuban people. (White House News Releases)
There are no official figures, but the Cuban Human Rights Commission estimates that between 40 and 50 inmates could be affected. The only exceptions to the death penalty changes are two Central Americans charged with a hotel bombing that killed an Italian tourist, and a Cuban American charged with murder during an attempt at armed infiltration of the island ... They are designed to make life easier and less restrictive for ordinary Cubans. (Yahoo News -- Cuba)
Cuban president Raul Castro has said he will raise state pensions by up to 20% and increase wages for court employees ... They include an easing of restrictions on the ownership of mobile phones, lifting a ban on Cubans staying at major hotels, and allowing private farmers more involvement in how they use their land ... The Cuban leader also announced salary increases for more than 9,000 court workers and judges. (Yahoo News -- Cuba)
The Cuban government has lifted a ban on its citizens staying in hotels previously reserved for foreigners, hotel staff say ... Last week, the state said Cubans would be allowed unrestricted access to mobile phones for the first time ... The new Cuban hotel guests, like the foreign tourists, will have to pay in hard currency - on an island where the average wage is about $17 (9) a month. (Yahoo News -- Cuba)
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