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...Back in Cuba, the three scrambled to gather their belongings and rearrange their work plans to accommodate their unanticipated stay in Cambridge...

Author: By Javier C. Hernandez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: En Route to Harvard Cubans Face Visa Delays | 12/16/2004 | See Source »

...weren’t expecting to get these visas,” said Rodríguez. “I needed to modify my work [in Cuba] because I was planning to be here two and a half years before...

Author: By Javier C. Hernandez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: En Route to Harvard Cubans Face Visa Delays | 12/16/2004 | See Source »

Though those applications were eventually successful, experts say that applying for permission to come to the United States from Cuba has become increasingly difficult since Sept. 11, and Harvard academics say the policies are impeding their efforts to foster collaboration with colleagues in Cuba...

Author: By Javier C. Hernandez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: En Route to Harvard Cubans Face Visa Delays | 12/16/2004 | See Source »

...only money, but values—look to the countries where the U.S. has enforced embargoes and those with which we have traded freely. It is hard not to think that trade must have something to do with why, for example, we have better relations with China than Cuba. Furthermore, raising these incomes tends to strengthen governments, who can then make the transition to paying their civil servants well and establishing better institutions. With greater decentralization of production and more and more personalization of products, it is also harder for one nation to dominate an industry wholesale. Indeed, trade often...

Author: By Alex B. Turnbull, | Title: If You Can't Play Nice... | 12/13/2004 | See Source »

Exporting products is also a way of exporting ideas; as such we should only go to war when trade has failed. Iraq has been expensive and bloody and is something that we can hardly afford to replicate in Iran, Myanmar or Cuba. Would it be too much to ask to open up to these countries and then see what this country...

Author: By Alex B. Turnbull, | Title: If You Can't Play Nice... | 12/13/2004 | See Source »

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