Word: cubanization
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...Miami, in a carpeted ballroom at the Jungle Island tourist attraction, stoked Obama supporters drank beer and wine and ate flan while watching election results on CNN and MSNBC. After the Ohio win was announced, all hell broke loose. "O-Ba-Ma!" they chanted. It was a diverse crowd: Cuban Americans who had voted Republican until this election, Hillary Clinton supporters who carried buttons for her in their pockets and traditional party liners wearing jeans and drinking beer. Many wore "I Voted for Change" stickers. In a corner, Eloisa Hidalgo dabbed tears as states began coming in for Obama...
...those who is sure to take him up on the offer - though he would surely make his opinion heard regardless - is Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, arguably the loudest ref critic on the planet. And though it's early in Johnson's tenure, Cuban is encouraged. "The biggest challenge the officiating group had was lack of experience in managing high-stress professionals," Cuban writes in an e-mail. "To say [Johnson] has that part mastered is an understatement." In addition to bringing on Johnson, the NBA has changed its management structure, separating referee oversight from its general basketball operations...
...photos of outspoken Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban here...
...talking about that magnitude," he argued last week. "We have more data" than the USGS. But Cupet, an arm of Cuba's ultra-secret communist government, hasn't offered much more evidence than that. Chris Schenk, who as USGS coordinator in the Caribbean led the 2004 survey, agrees that Cuban geologists "are very good." But he adds, "We would like to see more data." Still, Schenk notes, because of the embargo and Havana's insular information policies, "we can't converse with the Cubans...
...offshore drilling. Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush Administration officials point to Cuba's petro fortunes as justification for opening more of America's coastline to oil production. Recent polls in U.S. coastal states like Florida support that idea, despite environmentalist complaints that both U.S. and Cuban offshore rigs will foul the Gulf of Mexico. Meanwhile, embargo proponents on Capitol Hill have sponsored bills that would, among other sanctions, deny visas to the executives of foreign oil companies that drill oil in Cuba. Their reasoning: the more oil wealth Havana gains, the less incentive it has to pursue democratic...