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...Counter, said Garcia was a natural choice for the honor. “Andy Garcia is very much respected by Cuban-American students for his support for democracy and freedom in Cuba and merging those ideas with the arts,” Counter said. Garcia’s family fled Cuba when he was 5 years old, just two years after Fidel Castro came to power. The actor’s emotional attachment to the island was obvious at the reception following the screening. “I would change everything about who I am to live in a free...
...Many who eluded the authorities have fled the city for the relative safety of their home villages, where they remain, still fearful of arrest for their roles in the protests. One man who helped shelter a young monk who had suffered a deep gash on the head while escaping from a monastery raid told me the monk had later fled for the provinces. He believes the attack on the clergy of this devoted Buddhist nation and the imprisonment of monks will come back to haunt the junta. "We believe that if you do good, you receive good," he says...
...absence--the two-time Prime Minister is scheduled to return to Pakistan on Oct. 18 after eight years in exile--the tomb's marble floors have been chipped and its peeling walls spray-painted with anti-Benazir graffiti. Bhutto fled the country in 1999 when facing charges of corruption, which she contends were politically motivated. "She has disgraced the Bhutto name," says clan patriarch Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, who considers her self-imposed exile in London and Dubai an attempt to escape her sins. "The stigma will stay forever." Not to worry, insists the tomb's custodian, Muhammad Issa. "We will...
...play out. The Supreme Court's ambiguous yellow light means "absolutely nothing," says Ayesha Tammy Haq, a lawyer and prominent political talk show host. That's because she believes that a long rumored power-sharing deal between Musharraf and Bhutto, the self-exiled two-time Prime Minister who fled Pakistan in 1999 under still-unanswered charges of corruption, is still on. Indeed, Musharraf was not opposed by Bhutto's powerful Pakistan People's Party (PPP) during Saturday's vote: the PPP simply abstained from voting. With other opposition parties boycotting, that meant that Musharraf received all but two or three...
...dress differed. A contingent of eastern officials and players broke away from Mohun Bagan and set up the East Bengal club in 1920. The rivalry was ramped up after 1947, when the departing British divided Bengal along religious lines, its east becoming East Pakistan. Millions of Hindu refugees fled west to Kolkata. With livelihoods and loved ones lost, many had to struggle for their place among the city's better-established West Bengalis. "East Bengal gave them a banner to fly," says Majumdar. "It was their ray of hope...