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...fill its ranks, they started a tuition-free school with satellite academies in every province of the country. They scoured local schools and sports camps for young talent, regardless of the student's background. Graduates who didn't become performers became teachers. The result, as Alonso says, is "a Cuban school of ballet that is appreciated all over the world...
...dusty, sweltering afternoon last July, a strikingly handsome young Cuban walked across the bridge from Reynosa, Mexico, into McAllen, Texas, and asked U.S. border agents for political asylum. The first sign that he was no ordinary defector came when the agents ran a computer check on his identity. "All of a sudden," recalls the Cuban, "they were shaking my hand, congratulating me, asking for my autograph." Was he a political dissident? A pop singer? A baseball pitcher? In fact, in his own realm he was an even bigger catch. He was Rolando Sarabia, 23, a star of Cuba's National...
...almost unprecedented. "I'm kind of a pioneer," he says. He set a high standard for other expatriates to follow. Identified mostly with princely, heroic roles in "tutu ballets" like La Bayadčre and Don Quixote, he won Dance Magazine's 2004 award for contributions to dance, the first Cuban to do so since Alonso in 1958. The citation said, "He thrills audiences with his powerful leaps and glorious pirouettes, and breaks their hearts with his vulnerability...
...shirt as a tribute to the University president at the time of the first Faculty no-confidence vote this past March. The two entrepreneurs decided to base their design on the famous red and black poster of Guevara—seemingly equating the pro-free-market Summers with the Cuban communist revolutionary. “We view Larry Summers as a revolutionary in his own right,” Mowery said. “He wanted to revolutionize the way campus operates and the way a Harvard education operates.” Some students have expressed disapproval of the shirts...
...bass note, a tone note, and a slap. But with those three notes, you have tremendous possibilities of what to do with the rhythm.” Ogunnaike’s past credentials include playing bass in a blues group, strumming guitar for a “fusion Cuban band,” and drumming with The Harvard University Drummers (THUD). Now he is a member of the Pan-African Drum and Dance Ensemble, a group that he co-founded in the fall and which will be playing in Saturday’s Cultural Rhythms show...