Word: cuba
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...handful of territories - in 448 pages of snappy prose and glorious photos, including the picture shown here of a camel driver in Syria. There is lots of local knowledge as well. "No es facil" (it's not easy) is, we are told, the essential phrase to learn in Cuba. If you're bound for Botswana, make sure you try a glass of bojalwa, the local sorghum beer. Want to know more about life Down Under? Then you're urged to check out David Malouf's novel Remembering Babylon for a "compelling insight into the dynamics of early-colonial Australia." Stocking...
FIDEL CASTRO, 78, President of Cuba, immediately after he tripped down a set of stairs at an arts-school graduation ceremony in Santa Clara, Cuba...
Interpreting that Cuban academicians are “independent” and represent a variety of points of view is a total mistake and sends a wrong message to the Cuban people that discrimination in Cuba is welcome at Harvard...
Fernandez left Cuba when she was eight years old in 1962, and her entire family—including her two grown daughters—are steadfast supporters...
DIED. GERARD PIERRE-CHARLES, 68, influential Haitian author and politician; of heart failure after a lung infection; in Cuba. Although the lifelong communist was an early ally of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's, standing by the former Haitian President during his 1991 ouster and his 1994 return to power, the two had a falling out in 1997, when Pierre-Charles accused Aristide of betraying the poor and drifting toward dictatorship. In 2001 Aristide backers burned down the home of Pierre-Charles, who continued to stage protests until the Haitian President finally left the country last February...