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...tracked Eddy, the flute player, to an apartment in Guadalajara, Mexico's second largest city. He hasn't seen his family in two years. Every Tuesday he goes to the immigration office to try to get temporary visas to bring them to Mexico. But the Mexican bureaucrats keep asking for bribes. And he's not sure how his wife would even adjust--she's too communist, he says, laughing. She would miss her friends and co-workers in Cuba too much. For her part, she told me when I visited her in Santa Clara that she always knew it would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sound of Change: Can Music Save Cuba? | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...feels on a similar knife's edge. Should Raúl Castro weaken, there are still a dozen aging Ahmed Chalabis waiting in Miami to return from exile and divide the spoils among themselves. Should there be rebellion in the streets in Havana, there's still a state militancy that could bring blood to the Malecón. But the new generation of Cubans both here and abroad are of a milder bent, with gentler aspirations. A cabdriver I met launched into a familiar refrain: most of his family fled to Tampa when Fidel Castro stole their lands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sound of Change: Can Music Save Cuba? | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...He’s had a tremendous commitment to the community to bring the highest quality—authors and events—to the store,” says Denise A. Jillson, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association. “I can’t say enough about the family—it’s been so beloved and so respected...

Author: By Betsy L. Mead, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Life in Books Recalled | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

Obama called Summers “one of the great economic minds of our time” and said he will bring “a singular combination of skill, intellect and experience to the role he will play in our administration...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers Announced As Obama Economic Advisor | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

...We’ll need to bring together the best minds in America to guide us,” he said, adding that his nominees “offer both sound judgment and fresh thinking, both a depth of experience and a wealth of bold new ideas...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers Announced As Obama Economic Advisor | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

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