Word: cuba
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...Tucker, Chris Rock, they all have slots. I needed to get a slot." (Foxx says this with no rancor; he believes white actors have it tougher because "there's so damn many of them.") He read for the Rod Tidwell role in Jerry Maguire with Tom Cruise (for which Cuba Gooding Jr. won an Oscar), but even after Oliver Stone gave him a breakout part as a rookie quarterback in Any Given Sunday--reportedly because first choice Sean (P. Diddy) Combs threw like a girl--nothing changed. "After Any Given Sunday--I'm not kidding--I got a script called...
...became a powerful spokesman for spinal-cord injuries, including the use of fetal stem cells for medical research, while continuing to work in films as an actor and director. DIED GERARD PIERRE-CHARLES, 68, influential Haitian author and politician; of heart failure after a lung infection; in Havana, 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 he accused Aristide of betraying the poor and drifting toward dictatorship...
...Latvian dentists have been doing good work in Cuba,” says Todd...
...make sure all scholars understand the serious consequences of this decision,” said Coatsworth, who led the forum along with Domínguez and Barberia. “The only people really disadvantaged, in a way, are scholars in the U.S., who need to know something about Cuba and who will suffer from this isolation...
Taylor S. Gross, a White House spokesman, declined to comment on the decision but said that the president has taken multiple measures to “bring democracy and an end to the Cuban regime,” including creating a commission dedicated to “a free Cuba...