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...above means that in Cuba rules a discriminatory system of participation based on political submission to the regime and its postulates. Any academician with a different political opinion (unthinkable an opposing one) is banned from participation in any event...
...David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and Jorge I. Domínguez, director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. The balanced content of the book, including several sections which are critical of the Cuban government as well as sections that point out positives in Cuba, belies the State Department’s explanation and makes clear that, as Domínguez writes, “These are real academics. They point out things that one government will like and the other one will not, and this changes depending on what page one reads...
...Cuban voters Bush so desperately inklings to in Florida. Fidel Castro and the Cuban government—the supposed targets of the State Department’s actions—will remain unscathed by the decision. Regardless of what one thinks about the longstanding U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, it is clear that the State Department’s censorship of viewpoints is damaging to Americans who are deprived of their first amendment right to the free exchange of information. As Coatsworth said, “The only people really disadvantaged, in a way, are scholars...
...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...