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...Denouncing this practice cost Biscet not only his physician’s license and his home, but all claims to liberty. After being released from an initial three-year sentence, Biscet continued to advocate for freedom of speech and the extension of human rights to the Cuban people, creating the Lawton Foundation for Human Rights. After organizing a peaceful meeting at a friend’s house to discuss human rights violations in Cuba, the state police barged in, dragged the men onto the street, and beat them while their spouses and children watched. His perseverant focus on human rights...
...courage and faith of this man earned him a Presidential Medal of Freedom in November. His son was at the White House to accept it on his behalf. Dr. Biscet unfortunately couldn’t be there; he spent another day as a Cuban prisoner of conscience, locked in a wretched cell. Before accepting his father’s award, Yan Valdes Morejon emphasized in a Boston Globe editorial that his father’s suffering has not diminished. Biscet has lost nearly 40 pounds and most of his teeth. Castro refuses to release Biscet, despite appeals from the United...
...possessed in many years. He deserves the praises coming his way.But Beilein should not receive a pink slip in turn.Amaker has succeeded because of his circumstances, just as Beilein has failed because of his. Beilein has to change his team’s identity, whereas Amaker has total freedom to institute his own. Under former coach Frank Sullivan, the Crimson had no real identity. As a result, Harvard was a blank canvas ready to be painted.Beilein must first erase, then start all over. Give Beilein time and I believe he’ll succeed.JON: As Walt mentioned, Beilein...
...intelligence community. The Administration seemed to have lost control of its secrets. Gone were the days when spymasters would come to the White House for morning coffee and whisper the latest intelligence to the President, and the rest of the world would find out decades later, only after numerous Freedom of Information requests had prized the buried treasure from the CIA vault. Now the latest intelligence evaluations were being announced worldwide, nearly in real time. "It's just mind-boggling," a former CIA officer told me. "The impact of the Iraq WMD fiasco is coming home to roost. The intelligence...
...they didn't know very well, and their fears. They were convinced that their phones were being tapped. They had stopped watching mainstream TV news and were even thinking of leaving the country. "This is a country which was great," the woman said. "That's why we all came - freedom of speech, justice, things that were not even to be found in Muslim countries. But it is vanishing every...