Word: cuba
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...most famous kid at the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is Omar Khadr. A Canadian citizen, he was captured in Afghanistan in 2002 when he was only 15. The U.S. charges that he threw a grenade that killed a U.S. soldier. He faces a murder trial, which his lawyers are resisting, noting that he was a child at the time of the alleged crime. The U.S. has said Khadr was among the few juveniles being held at Guantánamo Bay. But a TIME analysis of data released earlier this month by the Pentagon indicates that Gitmo might...
...trembling, in a good way, because it was peaceful. I'm one of those crazy people who think that I'm a citizen of the world. I understand the need for political boundaries, but I certainly don't think humanity has boundaries. My father came from another country [Cuba], and I saw how he was underestimated, because of his accent or his stature - he's very short. It was the first time I'd seen a lot of people who reminded me of my father, coming together and saying, "We count. We're human beings." And that was pretty moving...
...first sign of trouble last week at the U.S. Navy's detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, came when guards found a prisoner unconscious in his cell. Then a second prisoner was discovered frothing at the mouth. Both had swallowed large amounts of an antianxiety drug. Not long after, 10 guards were lured into a medium-security bunkhouse where a detainee was apparently getting ready to hang himself with a bedsheet. In the ensuing melee, prisoners wielded broken fan blades, light fixtures and pieces of metal against riot police, who fired pepper spray and rubber pellets, leaving several lightly...
...government degree next month. MIT student Delbert A. Green II, who raised $50,000 while in high school to study kidney stones, spoke about his childhood in a dangerous section of Opelousas, La. Miles A. Johnson ’08, a social studies concentrator, spoke of going to Cuba on a high school academic program—an experience that transformed his views on race relations. In Cuba, he said, “there’s no sharp division” between blacks and whites. The students also signed books for the intimate crowd after their speeches...
...does not measure political tourism, it says the number of foreign tourists visiting Venezuela grew by 17 percent between 2001 and 2005, despite political strife and national strikes during that period. "There is something happening here," said Renee Kasinsky, 62, a professor of sociology in Boston. "I went to Cuba when it was 1962, two years after the revolution. And it feels like temporarily the clock has turned back...