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...Despite his globetrotting past, Posada is now, much to the U.S. Government's dismay, a man without a country. Since his arrest last year, officials in seven countries - Canada, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador, Mexico and Guatemala - all have told him to forget about moving to their homeland. The notable exceptions were Cuba and its ally Venezuela, which both said they would welcome him. But the court previously found those countries likely would torture him. So the U.S. has found itself in the uncomfortable position of not having a place to deport Posada, but no longer being constitutionally able...
...civil war that left the country littered with land mines, this kind of cool did not exist. The shops had food, but few luxuries, mailboxes were little more than garbage cans, and the way forward was along unmarked roads gouged with potholes. There was jazz - the Costa do Sol, at the end of [an error occurred while processing this directive] Maputo's Sunset Boulevard, the Avenida de Marginal, was serving up sax and prawns long before an AK-47 made it onto the Mozambican flag - but to get there you had to cling to the back of a pickup truck...
...accepted to Harvard. For the granddaughter of immigrants, this was like winning the lottery. And my son wasn't the only one to benefit. I sat in on classes and was invited to a dinner at which I found myself seated with the President of Costa Rica and a former Senator from Colorado. When my son went to Harvard, I went too. Anyone who is accepted by any first-tier university should think very, very carefully before turning it down. LINDA MELE JOHNSON Long Beach, Calif...
...most, it was simply a poignant moment in June's World Cup. Scoring his team's third goal to seal a victory over Costa Rica, Ecuador's Ivan Kaviedes pulled out a Spider-Man mask from his shorts, donned it and danced across the field, to the cheers of Ecuadorian fans. He did so in the memory of teammate Otilino (Spider-Man) Tenorio, killed in a 2005 car crash. But Marvel Entertainment executives took Kaviedes' tribute as their own. For a comic-book publisher, it marked a feat of superhero proportions: in less than a decade, the company...
Here are the surnames of some ministers in the new South Wales Labor government, Australia's longest-serving current administration: Iemma, Costa, Sartor, Della Bosca, Roozendaal, Orkopoulos, Hatzistergos and Tripodi. It's a wonderful achievement for them - and for Australia - that after only a few generations migrant families have seen their kids make it to Parliament. This immigrant upward mobility in politics is one of the things keen observers from New Zealand comment upon when they visit. (Kiwi politicians come in two flavors, not a good sign in a small country prone to exporting its talented people...