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ELECTED. MANNY DIAZ, 47, previously obscure lawyer who rose to fame by representing the relatives of temporary Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez--a fact appreciated by many of Miami's 123,000 Cuban Americans, whose votes were decisive; as mayor of Miami...
...massive teakwood gates of his family's suburban Bangkok compound roll open so police commandos can search it for the third time, Chalerm Yubamrung is smoking a fat Cuban cigar and complaining about the assaults on his dignity. Chalerm, a former police captain and now a member of Defense Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh's New Aspiration Party, has done miraculously well on a public servant's salary. He and his three sons live in a 2.5-hectare, 14-building estate complete with its own football field. Back in 1991, the last military government charged Chalerm and several politicians with being "unusually...
Peerless at setting scenes, Morris is not nearly as interested in laying out the issues that Teddy subjected to his rough-and-tumble handling. Morris is surprisingly stingy with background. The General Post Office controversy, the Cuban reciprocity treaty: What things of consequence were at risk there? Don't ask Morris. He's good with the sizzle, not so good with the stakes. When he tells the story of Roosevelt's intervention in the Pennsylvania coal miners' strike of 1902, he deftly sketches in the players--George F. Baer, the imperious representative of the mine owners; John Mitchell, the charismatic...
...show and then gave her the books she’d asked for. In addition to the latest album by Marianne Nowottny, a young independent artist inspired by Amos, we’d brought Inga Muscio’s Cunt (my choice), Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban (Alicia’s), and a book on the mythology and archaeology of motherhood, which combined her interest in archetypes with her own new motherhood. Amos accepted all gratefully, posed for a photograph, and gave me a warm...
...cigar smell reminds me of home. It’s sweet, and like a fireplace in the winter.” For her, cigar smoking can also be an act of rebellion. Though she claims that she is not picky about the types of cigars she smokes, she prefers Cuban Monte Cristos and finds cigar shops to be a lot of fun. “They’re so masculine, so you feel like a little rebel. [Cigar smoking] is definitely a traditionally male activity. If it weren’t, there wouldn’t be so much...