Word: fidels
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...world's most famous lefty beard is Fidel Castro's moth-eaten, air-conditioned number, a brilliant and durable trademark that has never been sufficiently backed up by the man's hormones. Rule One: A wispy, unpersuasive beard, through which the facial skin is clearly visible, tends to subvert a "strongman's" machismo...
Even those who are not Milosevic supporters resent seeing the former leader of their country, uniquely, put in the dock when so many other tyrants, from Fidel Castro to the late Franjo Tudjman of Croatia, have walked free. Vojislav Kostunica, the democratically elected President of Yugoslavia and hero of the people-power revolution that overthrew Milosevic, bitterly opposed sending him to a tribunal he regards as biased against Serbia. He called the deportation illegal and unconstitutional. It was. When the Serbian legislature, preferring that Milosevic be tried at home, declined to extradite him, the Serbian government ordered him extradited...
...After fainting during a speech, Fidel Castro said...
...married before. He looked more like Richard Gere than Richard Gere does; he held a steady job, was warm to Martinez' two young kids, washed the dishes and never hit her. And he was a hero--a Cuban air force pilot who three years earlier had bolted Fidel Castro's communist dictatorship...
...Cubans who served the U.S. during World War II. Since 1963, Cuban vets--who worked at the Navy's Guantanamo Bay base and in many cases saw combat--have been denied the pension benefits owed them under U.S. law. Washington has long maintained that the money would line Fidel Castro's pockets. But now at least 250 plaintiffs hope to have a class action accepted in federal court to obtain their money. Lawyers say that official Cuban pension files were destroyed by fire; the government claims that the Cubans can't sue in U.S. court. More than Greatest Generation nostalgia...