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...geography. Floripa, as it is known to locals, is basically an island - a stretch of water cuts most of the city off from the mainland, and a bridge connects the two. With waves lapping every corner, it's a haven for watersports enthusiasts, and kite surfers love its central lagoon. There are 42 beaches in total, many of which are only accessible by foot or boat...
...received a call from law professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.’s aide, requesting they bring their laptops and come help the reverend. Jackson, the prominent civil rights activist and two-time presidential candidate, was slated to speak at the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church in Central Square as part of an annual speech organized by the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, an organization at the Law School founded by Ogletree. Maule and Dennis were scheduled to have coffee with Jackson before the speech but instead ending up helping the reverend complete his draft. Jackson?...
...desire was always to fulfill my responsibility until my last breath." With that, Fidel Castro suggested that he had wanted to hang on to power until the very end. But the central message of the letter published early Tuesday morning on the website of Granma, Cuba's official newspaper, was that poor health was forcing him formally to relinquish power. "To my close compatriots ... I say that I will not aspire to nor accept - I repeat, I will not aspire to nor accept - the office of President of the Council of State or Commander in Chief," he wrote. His resignation...
...they're taking place in a foreign country. "For Catalonia, it is better if?" was how the typical response began. Here, road signs and restaurant menus are written in Catalan. It's also the language of public education, in schools where the national history of Catalonia is central to the curriculum, while Spanish is taught for two hours a week as a foreign language. The region, officially called an "autonomous community," has broad leeway in establishing political and social policy. But polls show that some 35% want full independence from Madrid...
...Home to some 40 million mostly poor people, Central America is an enormous market for inexpensive clothing. Nicaraguan entrepreneurs often travel to Miami to buy used clothing in bulk, and ship it back home to sell for a hefty profit. According to an investigation by Nicaraguan economist Alejandro Arauz, most such apparel is imported into Nicaragua as "donations" to skirt commercial taxes, then resold for a 200 percent profit. To further cut costs, the used clothing purchased in the U.S. is bottom-of-the-barrel stuff, the garments picked over and left behind at Goodwill and then sold...