Word: cubanism
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...January, billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban echoed that sentiment, showing little sympathy for the Hornets' struggles. "Somebody's got to get off their ass and sell tickets," he said. "They've got the best record in the Western Conference, and they can't get people to come? That's not New Orleans, that's effort." Shinn called Cuban to tell him he was "very insulted" by the remarks, and in an e-mail interview with TIME, Cuban insisted he wasn't trying to "insult" Shinn and offered his early experience with the floundering Mavericks as a blueprint...
...Sweetwater, the Mormon candidate who has been married to the same woman for almost forty years found himself trying to explain the appeal of Florida's sun-soaked fairer sex. "Why are there so many beautiful women here? I haven't figured this out," Romney said, innocently enough. "Cuban American women are gorgeous...
...Denouncing this practice cost Biscet not only his physician’s license and his home, but all claims to liberty. After being released from an initial three-year sentence, Biscet continued to advocate for freedom of speech and the extension of human rights to the Cuban people, creating the Lawton Foundation for Human Rights. After organizing a peaceful meeting at a friend’s house to discuss human rights violations in Cuba, the state police barged in, dragged the men onto the street, and beat them while their spouses and children watched. His perseverant focus on human rights...
...courage and faith of this man earned him a Presidential Medal of Freedom in November. His son was at the White House to accept it on his behalf. Dr. Biscet unfortunately couldn’t be there; he spent another day as a Cuban prisoner of conscience, locked in a wretched cell. Before accepting his father’s award, Yan Valdes Morejon emphasized in a Boston Globe editorial that his father’s suffering has not diminished. Biscet has lost nearly 40 pounds and most of his teeth. Castro refuses to release Biscet, despite appeals from the United...
Andrew Velo-Arias ’11 lives in Holworthy Hall. He is a member of the Cuban-American Undergraduate Student Association...