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...Castro, who turns 80 August 13 and is, say official communiques, recovering from major intestinal surgery, last week handed provisional power to his younger brother and defense minister, Raul Castro. At first, Miami's politically potent Cuban exiles exulted in the streets of Little Havana. But when the reality sunk in that Fidel is most likely still alive - and that his communist dictatorship may well endure under Raul even if he's not - it also reminded many Cuban-Americans that their once ardent hopes of reclaiming confiscated property could be, as one Pentagon analyst says, "a pipe dream." A report...
They say with crisis comes opportunity. For Jed Horne ’70, crisis came swirling in dangerous winds and swelling in drowning waves on the morning of Monday, August 29, 2005. Horne was not actually in New Orleans the moment Hurricane Katrina struck the Louisiana coast. He had been in Mexico as the storm approached and hurried to return, reaching southern Louisiana just hours after the storm had past.As city editor for The New Orleans Times-Picayune, Horne led the paper’s coverage of Katrina, helping the paper win two Pulitzer Prizes—one for public...
Massive Distraction Wednesday, August 2, 10:13 a.m. An officer took a report of suspicious activity where an unknown individual attempted to engage another individual in conversation while driving a vehicle...
...video adaptation of this essay aired Thursday, August 3 on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer...
...Sadr's ties with Iran have grown steadily in the last couple of years, however, and he warned earlier this year that his forces would retaliate if Iran came under attack from the U.S. or Israel. His Mehdi Army fought two pitched battles with U.S. forces in April and August of 2004, both of which ended inconclusively with political deals. And like Hizballah in Lebanon, Sadr's movement, even as it maintains a private army, is now a key element of the democratically elected government...