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...faint glimmer of justice is piercing the grim shadows of U.S. practices at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba. Experts from the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Commission announced last week that the U.S. practice of detaining prisoners in perpetuity and without trial is in violation of international law, and UN Secretary General Kofi A. Annan promptly expressed his support for the panel’s demand that Guantanamo be closed. In order to uphold the standards of the Geneva Convention, the Bush administration should comply with the proposals of the UN panel and allow all 500 Guantanamo prisoners...
...prepared for her trip, Rice said she hoped Iran would reassess its defiance once it realized that "the countries that support [Iran] are Syria, Cuba, and Venezuela; not the major Arab states, not any of the European states. This isn't just about the United States. This is about incredible isolation...
...Harvard students make up 14 of the 30 recipients of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships For New Americans, which award funding for two years of graduate study in the United States to immigrants or children of immigrants.The 2006 fellows come from countries as diverse as Peru, Taiwan, Greece, Cuba, and Russia, and study a wide spectrum of topics ranging from bioengineering to government to English.These fellows are members of a group known as “New Americans,” a demographic that Warren Ilchman, director of the Soros Fellowships, characterizes as representing “a unique...
When my grandparents first invited me to go with them to Cuba over winter break, I mentally cast myself in “Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights.” I wear a clingy red dress, with a red flower nestled perfectly among my tumbling curls, as I sway my hips during a sensual salsa with the film’s heartthrob, Diego Luna. After all, the heroine of “Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights” was a Radcliffe girl—I could find a sexy Latin lover too, right? But once I arrived, the Harvard side...
...program does give Chavez a chance to showcase "one of our revolution?s most important principles: the redistribution of oil revenues, especially for the poor." He adds it also reflects "the kind of cooperation mechanism we?re using with our neighbor countries in Latin America." Many of them - especially Cuba, whose communist leader Fidel Castro is one of Chavez?s closest allies - get cheaper access to Venezuelan crude as part of Chavez?s campaign to forge greater Latin American integration and less economic reliance on the U.S. Last Friday, in a move that further irritated the U.S., Chavez was awarded...