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...Cuban Dismissal Crisis ELIAN GONZALEZ...
...bulrushes, by a fisherman. He became known to us by one name. To have any greater religious overtones, the tale would have to involve visits from the Virgin Mary--which some said it did. And the standoff over what to do with Elian (now 7) after the November 1999 Cuban-refugee-boat sinking that killed his mother, was as intractable as a religious schism. To his father Juan Miguel, in Cuba, the Miami relatives who took Elian in were kidnappers, buying the boy's love with chocolate milk and trips to Disney World. To the relatives and their vocal, anti...
...interesting thing about life is that it does not come prepackaged in a three-act structure the way most movies do. It tends to lurch along like - oh, say, a disputed election in Florida. Take the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Since we are all still here to savor this accurate reconstruction of those anguished days, we know everything came out all right in the end. But seen through the eyes of presidential aide Kenny O'Donnell (Costner), it is still a suspenseful tale. Well acted too, especially by Costner and Greenwood as John F. Kennedy. The players...
Besu said she remembers watching the show as a little girl with her grandfather. "It's basically how she learned English," she quipped, "because we are originally Cuban...
Still, he acknowledged when pressed by a student questioner that the 19 percent of the recounting that was completed when the county decided to suspend the procedure covered mostly Democratic precincts--and that ballots from the heavily Republican precincts where Cuban-Americans lived had yet to be cast...