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...Outspending Sen. Hillary Clinton by a margin of about three to one in Wisconsin, Obama constructed a sturdy coalition of Democrats and independents that could reshuffle the race in Ohio and Texas. Exit polls suggested that Obama continued to make strides against what had been Clinton's last line of defense until recently; they split evenly among female voters, voters in union households, voters with no more than a high school education and voters making less than $50,000 a year, while Obama carried men and independents by a rate of almost three...
...Fidel's exit was hardly unexpected, and the streets of Havana today are reportedly calm. Seriously incapacitated by his stomach condition, the 81-year-old comandante, who has ruled Cuba and roiled the U.S. since taking power in 1959, has not been seen in public for a year and a half - even failing to appear at the podium last July 26 for the anniversary of the launching of his communist revolution. In December he released a letter saying he didn't want to "cling to power," which analysts like Latell called his de facto resignation. In his statement today, released...
...mean a change in American policy toward the island.) Meanwhile, Fidel's resignation is both a boon and a bitter pill to Cuban exiles in Miami, who are relieved to see him out of power but unhappy that he, and not they, got to choose the timing of his exit, and that his regime will linger on in large part under his brother. (Although it also has to be a downer for Fidel to step down just months short of his golden anniversary in power.) Jose "Pepe" Hernandez, president of the Miami-based Cuban-American National Foundation, which backs...
...that swept upwards. Kazmierczak then took aim at those very fleeing students, Santos says. The attacker then hopped down onto the main floor. Santos, in Row 7, reached for his girlfriend, and for a moment pulled her against the far right wall, just steps from the room's front exit. The couple shivered, hoping to evade the gunman's path. "But he was just stepping up the aisles, just shooting people, just like that," Santos says, imitating Kazmierczak's motion with his arms to show how the attacker shot students "at point-blank range...
Santos and Caspillan headed down and rushed out through the bottom right exit doors, without ever looking at the stage. They believe they were the first students to leave the class. The time was 3:12. Santos remembers that detail because he called his dad exactly three minutes later. Kazmierczak, Santos recalls, "never yelled. He just came in, shot at us like we were cattle...