Word: cuba
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...wanted to dance in the classical ballet, but my mom told me fat girls could not dance.' MAILIN DAZA, prima ballerina for Danza Voluminosa, an obese dance group that has become a cultural phenomenon in Cuba...
...mind rather than the Democratic base. She insisted that the withdrawal from Iraq would have to be gradual. She refused to say she would commit U.S. ground troops to Darfur. And then, after Obama promised he would meet with the leaders of countries like Iran, Syria, North Korea and Cuba in his first year in office, she just leveled the guy. "I will not promise to meet with the leaders of these countries," she said, explaining that you need to do the diplomatic groundwork first, find out what their intentions are. "I don't want to be used for propaganda...
...Just-Drinks report. "Cognacs and aged whiskeys are what their parents drank." David Longfield, an editor at Drinks International in London, agrees. Aged rum "has a hip, even naughty aspect that Cognac tends to lack." Matusalem (a Spanish variation of Methuselah), for instance, uses a recipe smuggled out of Cuba after the 1959 revolution. The company's sales in Spain, one of the hottest aged-rum markets, are expected to double this year, to 660,000 bottles...
FIDEL CASTRO, recovering Cuban leader, lambasting U.S. foreign policy in a July 1 essay in Cuba's Communist Youth newspaper, Juventud Rebelde...
...Twenty-five acts have been commissioned specifically for the city, hailing from countries as diverse as Cuba and China. "We're absolutely the new kid on the block, but Manchester has contributed massively to popular culture over the last 25 years," the (Scottish) festival director Alex Poots told TIME. "We thought we should build a festival about original, modern work." Keeping in the spirit of civic regeneration, the festival's line-up is a varied, multi-sensory experience. It includes ballet from Cuba's Carlos Acosta, gigs from Smokey Robinson and Kanye West, a concert adaptation of Salman Rushdie...