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...Fidel, like his country, has continued to defy the odds." JOHN KIRK, Cuba expert and professor at Dalhousie University in Canada, on Cuban President Fidel Castro. The world's longest-serving communist leader turned 78 last Friday...
...foot-stomping beats, while old men cross roads with radios glued to their ears. By night, Bamako is a riot of noise as singers ululate at wedding parties and the city's many music venues crank up the bass. Perhaps surprisingly, there is more than a little flavor of Cuba here - partly due to commerce, and partly due to shared rhythmic heritage. Yet each ethnic or social group (ranging from the singer-storyteller caste known as griots to the Fulani and Tuareg tribes) has its own musical tradition. The result? A heady mélange that spans infectious Afro...
...welterweight (80 kg/176 lb.) division. He stars for the sport's first family: brother Jean, 30, is his coach; sister Diana, 20, is an Olympic alternate; Mark, 22, nearly faced big brother at the trials (he lost in the semis). THE COMPETITION Although it's a Korean sport, Cuba's Angel Matos Fuentes won the welterweight gold in Sydney. Newcomer Yousef Karami of Iran has also impressed...
...They've gotten good at not only picking up possible messages between plotters but analyzing information more quickly to determine what is just radical railing and what has substantial hidden meaning," says French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard. Despite the continued debate over the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, CIA and FBI officials insist that some high-level detainees have proved valuable in decoding talk among operatives. The war in Afghanistan and the global dragnet have taken out of circulation about half of bin Laden's senior lieutenants. "The kinds of people who are coming in simply...
...power and elegance. The artistic director of the National Ballet of Spain, he also made 10 films that brought him an international audience, notably Blood Wedding, Spanish director Carlos Saura's vibrant dance version of the Garcia Lorca play. Gades was an ardent communist who spent several years in Cuba. Fidel Castro was the best man at his wedding...