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...work its special flavor, not to mention its distinctive sense of the not quite familiar. Richler's raffish characters could be from New York, Chicago or Los Angeles, except that they are nuts about hockey, spice their conversation with French as well as Yiddish and have legal access to Cuban cigars...
...made this proposal ... as a gesture for the pope and for all Christians," Castro said Sunday. The emphasis was on gesture - don't expect Christmas to come in 1998, added the Cuban leader; this is a once-off. What's more, many of the island's workers won't even notice, because not everyone will be allowed to spend December 25 at home with the kids. The Labor Ministry is expected to divide the holiday haves from the have-nots within the next few days. Perhaps Castro is perfect for the role of Scrooge, after...
Like all good twenty- and thirtysomethings in pop culture today, the threesome have a table all their own in a coffeeshop down the street--a Cuban cafe called Ossorio's, where Ossorio himself affectionately calls the rag-tag artists his "white and wounded fluffy baby birds." They are each other's best friends and worst critics, literally living through everything together and nurturing each other to the very last. "I don't consider myself psychic, just lucky--with friends," says Hartley. The reader, in being included in the circle, is equally fortunate...
MIAMI: Fidel Castro will sleep just a little bit easier tonight as Miami?s Cuban exile community mourns the death of his would-be nemesis, Jorge Mas Canosa. Indeed, says TIME correspondent and former Havana bureau chief Cathy Booth, ?Castro is probably dancing all over Havana. He?s outlasted umpteen U.S. presidents, and now he?s outlasted the leader of his opposition in Miami...
...Canosa, 58, a telecommunications tycoon, was the founding president of the Cuban American National Foundation, which transformed Cuban exile politics into a powerful mainstream lobby with sway over the White House. Mas Canosa died of lung cancer...