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...Carnival and The Ecleftic, mixed English and Haitian Creole. Christina Aguilera, who launched her career singing English-language teen pop, recorded a CD entirely in Spanish last year. Increasingly, world-beaters are collaborating and connecting with one another. Colombian rocker Shakira's new CD was executive- produced by Cuban-American Emilio Estefan Jr. and draws from Argentine tango...
...English-language pop CD, for which he co-wrote more than half the songs. Two of them, Love Can't Get Any Better and She Mends Me, hold the promise of a long shelf life. The first is an up-tempo, feel-good song with strong Afro-Cuban percussion rhythms. The latter is a haunting ballad about a man who has lost himself in a painful breakup--a perfect vehicle to show off Anthony's technical and emotional range...
Just when the media appears to have squeezed every last sneer of punditry out of the Gary Condit story, a familiar savior shimmers on the horizon of the summer news drought: The Return of Elian. TIME has learned that Cuban officials are weighing whether to send young Elian Gonzalez to next month's United Nations assembly on children in New York. The special session is to be attended by more than 80 heads of state, including President George W. Bush and possibly Cuban President Fidel Castro. But the Cubans are also planning to send a delegation of children, and Cuban...
...Castro does attend, Elian's presence would also expand his ability to embarrass President Bush, who owes a substantial political debt to Florida's anti-Castro activist community. The President will have a hard enough time dodging a potentially uncomfortable encounter with the Cuban leader, who managed to buttonhole President Clinton at a U.N. event last Fall. But Elian's presence would intensify the media focus on the event, making attendance more even more uncomfortable for President Bush with some of his core constituencies. On the other hand, allowing a Cuban propaganda stunt to keep him away from a conference...
...While the Grammy organization has promised to reopen negotiations over holding the event in Miami next year, the wounds in the Cuban exile community may not be as easily healed. Castro's twilight years are proving to be curiously trying for his arch-enemies in Florida, precisely because they've placed the question of a post-Castro Cuba, and current U.S. policy, squarely in the spotlight. And whereas many of the older generation had lived much of their lives expecting to simply sail back in and turn back the clock following some cataclysmic event that would see Castro overthrown...