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...which way is really in the American tradition? In some respects, that's beside the point, because the immigration debate, like immigration itself, is a bet on the future. "Immigrants don't come to America to change America," says Florida Senator Martinez, who arrived from Cuba when he was 15. "Immigrants come to America to be changed by America." But either way, they come...
...World Baseball Classic—on March 13, 2006, hidden in a thicket of good feelings and mostly good baseball—Fidel Castro’s Cuba reared its ugly head...
Apparently, the Classic’s organizers had made the decision long ago to ban signs with political messages in order to comply with an agreement made with Cuba, whose participation hinged on such a requirement...
...zero-tolerance orchestra. Past gabby winners Cuba Gooding Jr. and Julia Roberts wouldn?t have had a chance with this year?s schedule-conscious conductor. Co-winners, like Crash, scriptwriter Bobby Moresco who won for original screenplay, never got to utter a word. In fact, we had lots more to say?about Jon Stewart?s under-stated hosting, Meryl Streep & Lily Tomlin?s witty presenting, Isaac Mizrahi?s good behavior, the penguins who made the trip?(music swells...
...trust his lawyer at the start, refusing even to speak with her. She did what she could to win his confidence, donning a hijab, the head covering worn by observant Muslim women, when she visited him at Camp Delta at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Eventually, he began to ask how his aging father in Saudi Arabia made contact with her, how he could be sure she was not another interrogator trying to extract more information from him. "He asked me the same questions over and over," says Gitanjali Gutierrez. "He desperately sought some means...