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...That entire summer was an incredible show the island put on for us as well as others. The Cuban people were, and are, stunning in their warmth and generosity. The city itself, seemingly untouched in 40 years, was pure melancholic Caribbean beauty. And Castro endlessly paraded his significant achievements as a leader while behaving himself uncharacteristically well. It was as if this handful of old musicians and their songs of villages and girls from long ago lured both dissidents and oppressors into a season of d?tente...
...island where Jack has landed, the Governor (Jonathan Pryce) wishes his spirited daughter Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) to marry the local commodore (Jack Davenport). She has eyes for her childhood friend Will Turner (Orlando Bloom). But the island is attacked by pirates more fearsome than the larcenous Jack. The notorious Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) kidnaps Elizabeth to help break a curse on his ship, the Black Pearl. So Jack and Will forge a wary alliance. One wants the ship; the other wants the girl...
...Clinic of the University of Barcelona and director of Saude Manhiça's research clinic. Early results should be available in 18 months. - By Maryann Bird Referendum Rejected CORSICA In a surprise result, Corsicans narrowly rejected a Paris-sponsored referendum proposing administrative reform and greater autonomy for the island. Only 16 days before the referendum, opinion polls had the yes camp ahead by 6%. "Corsicans realized this was a doctrine of decentralization being applied to Corsica, not a studied plan to address our problems," said François Tatti, deputy mayor of Bastia, where the no vote surpassed...
...Goree island speech was a stirring one, but the audience's response was muted. Even when the president leaned in to the crowd to shake hands, few rose to snatch a moment with him. Those who did seemed to receive a double dose from an energetic president who looked well cooled by an air conditioning vent built into the platform to push cool air directly under the speaker's feet. As he does in the United States when meeting with African Americans or Hispanics, Bush shook hands and leaned near enough to share a milkshake, a close-hold that...
...course, since 9/11 it is impossible for Bush to expose himself to his audiences the way his predecessor did. Goree island appeared abandoned, the brightly painted mustard and rose buildings that cater to vacationers shuttered, flanked only by the occasional uniformed soldier and his strapped carbine. The children who normally would have swarmed the beaches to greet the Senegalese presidential yacht, were kept well out of sight, behind ubiquitous metal cordons. To brighten their penning they draped the bars of the barren blockades with intensely colored local tapestries and played soccer in the dirt courtyard while they waited...