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...from this war of words? Fidel and his brother Raúl Castro, who is likely to succeed him. With plenty of material support from Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, the embargo is not so painful as it once was, and heated U.S. rhetoric only bolsters their image at home as the island's anti-Yanqui defenders...
...closest you'll get to a YouTube moment in communist Cuba - and perhaps a harbinger of the post-Fidel Castro era. Earlier this month a video surfaced on the island showing a Havana university student, Eliecer Avila, peppering National Assembly leader Ricardo Alarcon with the kind of public questions that usually get Cubans tossed in jail. Why does a worker have to toil two or three days just to be able to buy a toothbrush? Avila, a computer science major, asked the visibly flummoxed Alarcon, who was visiting Avila's school outside Havana. Why can't Cubans freely travel abroad...
...blocking group develops an addiction, these rewards are few and far between. No wonder so many people prefer discussing movies; it’s simpler on a scale of time, if nothing else. Which brings me to “Lost.” Entering its fourth season, the island-castaway head-scratcher offers no greater puzzle than this: Why do I continue to watch it? “Lost” is like an abusive boyfriend: every time you think you’ve had enough, it offers its hand and promises to do better in the future...
...Once, in a tiny eatery on Roat?n Island, Honduras, the young boy who came out to take my order was wearing a T-shirt from my hometown - a purple Wellesley softball shirt that looked identical to the one my family had recently donated to charity. Excitedly, I tried to explain to him in broken Spanish that he was wearing my sister's shirt, which he interpreted as an accusation that he had stolen it. The boy profusely denied my allegations, and when he reappeared with my fried chicken, he was wearing a different shirt to deter any further conversation...
...Iraq remains at 130,000 for a period of time. That will give Petraeus and the Bush Administration, which wants to avoid any action that could jeopardize the past year's gains in Iraq, leverage to suspend the pullout for a time. Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island and a former Army officer, asked Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, at a hearing last week if doing that wouldn't break the Army. "The real opportunity to reduce the tours to 12 months would be seriously compromised if, in fact, we commit to 15 brigades indefinitely," Reed...