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...Some of them recently met with American diplomatic officials who are permitted to work in Havana. But a prominent dissident who has not been arrested is physicist Oswaldo Paya, 51, head of the Varela Project, which is calling for a constitutional referendum on free speech and elections. Castro's ire at the growing popularity of Paya seems a key impetus for the dragnet, since most of those arrested are Varela activists. But Castro has apparently decided that arresting Paya, who last year won the European Union's Sakharov Award for human rights, would attract the kind of attention Castro doesn...
...plan has sparked increasing ire from Peabody School parents over the past two weeks...
...reach the final, UMD beat Dartmouth 5-2 on March 21. The Crimson players watched some of that game after their 6-1 win over Minnesota, and the Bulldogs’ celebrations drew the ire of some of Harvard’s skaters...
...Sakamoto's success is also the root of the publishing mandarins' ire: he took their most potent weapon?their ability to fix prices?and turned it against them. One of the most stubborn vestiges of the Japanese government's protectionist bent is its 89-year-old saihan law, which makes it illegal to sell new books at a discount. The law's defenders spout a host of muddled rationales for preserving it, arguing variously that it promotes literacy or protects copyrights or maintains the intellectual integrity of the nation's literary output. This in a country where...
...through the first half of last year’s Ivy slate and has been inconsistent in the early portion of its schedule this year. Star forward Ugonna Onyekwe is coming off a demotion by Quaker coach Fran Dunphy. Onyekwe, whose underachieving has repeatedly drawn Dunphy’s ire, was left out of his team’s starting lineup for five straight games prior to Tuesday’s win over La Salle...