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...protect his state's textile producers. The decisive ballot was cast by South Carolina's Jim DeMint, who changed his vote to Bush's side when the tally hit 214-214. At the last minute, G.O.P. leaders promised DeMint that South Carolina textile companies would be protected against cheap Caribbean and Latin imports. But Lindsey Graham, a fellow S.C. Republican who is running for a Senate seat, wasn't buying it. "They'll promise you the moon--but the point is, it's just to get your vote...
Fortenberry will use the fellowship money to work on youth empowerment in the Caribbean...
Until the rise of Fidel Castro, the longest running dictator in the Caribbean league was Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, the undisputed ruler of the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961. Those were the glamour years for tin-pot tyrants, and Trujillo did his best (or worst) to epitomize the pre-Castro stereotype. His uniforms were the spiffiest, his medals the most splendiferous and his enemies the most fearful. He was hailed as God's gift to the nation and was its unchallenged alpha male--the First Phallus of the Republic...
...malignity. He was an avid racial cleanser. In 1937 he ordered the massacre of thousands of Haitians who settled on the wrong side of the border between the two countries. His murderous chief of police, Johnny Abbes, made sure that the Republic had the best-fed sharks in the Caribbean. "A toad in body and soul," Abbes would be the novel's vilest character were it not for Trujillo's son Ramfis, a playboy known abroad for his affairs with Hollywood stars and at home for raping schoolgirls. Vargas Llosa plants Trujillo securely in his time and place...
This weekend, relive the magic with Mainly Jackson. For the first time, witness the skills of the Caribbean Dance Company, TAPS and the Mainly Jazz Dance Company as they create HIStory in a performance of dances to the music of Michael and Janet Jackson as well as the Jackson 5. The spring of 2000 found the Mainly Jazz Dance Company incorporating Michael Jackson songs into their routine, and now the winter of 2001 celebrates the triumphant return of pop’s erstwhile king as well as his superstar sister...