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...Kouri left Harvard in 1958, during his sophomore year at the College, to fight in the Cuban Revolution under Fidel Castro. He earned a medical degree in Cuba but was condemned to death in 1965 for his opposition to Castro's communist policies, he said...
...Kouri was freed 1979, after surviving a starvation diet, physical brutality, and more than two years of solitary confinement...
Jonathan W. Engel '86 won the Senior English Orator competition; Yamil H. Kouri--who is being awarded a master's degree this year from the Graduate School of Public Health--will speak as the Graduate Orator, and Gary E. Shapiro '86 will deliver the Latin Oration to a Tercentenary Theatre audience on June...
...Kouri's speech explains how his Harvard experience helped him survive 15 years in a Cuban prison...
...picks those that will be published. A digest of the week's letters is also distributed to TIME'S editors and news bureaus. All letters are acknowledged, and those that question the tone, emphasis or factual content of a story are answered by Cisneros, her deputy, Isabel Kouri, or one of six letters correspondents. More and more, Cisneros and her co-workers are finding that the letters are thoughtful, and require thoughtful replies. Says Cisneros: "Our writers are much more serious now. They really mean business." All of which pleases the writers and editors of TIME...