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...former CIA operative and alleged terrorist Luis Posada Carriles was freed on bail pending his trial on immigration fraud. Even the U.S. Justice Department objected to the release of Posada, who some believe was linked to a 1976 airline bombing that killed 73 people, including 24 members of the Cuban fencing team, and who escaped from a Venezuelan prison in 1985. Posada, 79, who denies any involvement in the bombing, has been ordered to remain under house detention at his wife's apartment in the Miami area, where reaction was a mix of support and embarrassment...
Since opening in October, the BCC has become the closest thing to a Western-style drinking establishment in Iraq, the place to go for Cuban cigars, fresh cuts of beef and a decent bottle of Bordeaux. On a clear April night, the white plastic tables in the garden fill up with an assortment of Green Zone archetypes: broad-shouldered security contractors walk in with dates in tight tops and high heels; a handful of diplomats mingle in blazers; a construction worker wearing a fishing vest that reads BAGHDADDY meets his friends at the end of a 12-hour shift...
Joining the ranks of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Thelonious Monk, nine-time Grammy Award winner Eddie Palmieri became Harvard’s latest artist in residence this week, continuing the Office of the Arts’ (OFA) year-long project, The Afro-Cuban Connection. “It’s been a tremendous honor. I had been treated with the highest degree of consideration, working with the students and [Director of Bands] Tom Everett, who is absolutely wonderful, and everyone who is involved in the preparation for the concert—and I appreciate that in my heart...
...Infante plays José Carlos, a popular singer who falls for Ana Luisa (Emilia Gul?), a schoolteacher who's very proper, very blond, very snooty to those of darker hue. She's downright rude to José Carlos' closest comrades: his Afro-Cuban bandmate, Fernando (Chimi Monterrey), and the band's sexy, dusky lead dancer, Isabel (Chela Castro), who clearly has a crush on the oblivious José Carlos. "You lower yourself dancing with that mulatta," Ana Luisa sneers, to which her color-blind beau replies, "It was God's decision that she's of mixed race." Ana Luisa also...
...Jazz, deriving from 1920s slang meaning “sex” or “orgasm,” is often exuberant, but Palmieri, with his whole body convulsing as he played the piano, pushed jazz to its orgiastic, ecstatic limits at last Saturday’s Afro-Cuban Jazz Connection in Sanders Theatre...