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Fidel Castro once sought to challenge international capitalism by distributing weapons in the Third World; now he hopes to do the same with AIDS drugs. The Cuban leader on Tuesday signed an agreement with South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki to promote the development and distribution of cheap alternatives to the AIDS drugs marketed by Western pharmaceutical corporations, which are often priced beyond the reach of most HIV patients in the developing world. Castro also vowed to put Cuba's pharmaceutical industry to work on helping countries such as South Africa and Brazil manufacture generic versions of the drug treatments...
...gang are ready for the chase. With a flourish, Fai slaps on a cool, floppy plaid racing cap, like the ones worn by Cuban jazz trumpeters. It's a bold hat, but it's a bold night and the glint in Fai's gaze makes you think his magnets are spinning full tilt...
...House, accumulating so much stuff that when the Clintons vacated the residence in January, he had nearly as many boxes to move as Chelsea. (He probably would have had more, but he also spent weekends at a Coral Gables, Fla., home he shares with his wife Maria Arias, a Cuban-American real estate lawyer...
Still, that the community is acknowledging the practice at all is a start, and a sign that Haitian Americans, like Cuban Americans before them, are beginning the passage from huddled refugees to more confident immigrants and players in the U.S. "We are not going to let Haitian traditions like restavek flourish here because we know now that America is the great equalizer among us," says attorney Phillip Brutus, who in November was elected Florida's first Haitian-American state legislator. "We're making giant leaps from where we were 10 years ago in that sense...
...hope is that the film pricks people's curiosity about what really happened [during the Cuban missile crisis] and about the relevence it has for the real world today," Allison said...