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...Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello, 58, is also critically ill. She is the director of the Cuban Institute of Independent Economists, founder of the Assembly to Promote Civil Society in Cuba and the recipient of the 2002 Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award, bestowed by the New York Academy of Sciences. First jailed in 1997 for co-authoring a paper critical of the Communist system, she was released in May 2000—only to be incarcerated again this past March for meeting with U.S. diplomats and publicly demanding freedom for Cuban political prisoners. This time, she was given...
...date, there’s been no organized show of support for González Leiva at Harvard Law School, and nothing in the economics department for Martha Roque. In all likelihood, few professors or students even know their names. The same can undoubtedly be said for most American universities...
...food onstage is sumptuous and real, from the thimble-size beef tartare amuse-bouche to the spiced Moroccan lamb with couscous--pronounced, as the Martha Stewart-style hostess is careful to note, "coush-coush." The dinner guests are an array of gabby intellectuals loosely modeled on real-life intellectuals--a Christopher Hitchens-type British lefty, a Tom Clancy-like novelist with pro-war views, a Middle East expert who recalls the late Edward Said. They sit around a long oval table, with a chandelier listing overhead and helicopters whirring periodically, ominously, offstage. After heated debates on everything from Palestinian violence...
Parents who don't want to overindulge their kids' inner Martha would do well to remember that imagination is free and often in ample supply in the young brain. When the trend watchers at Look-Look searched its youth network for cool room ideas, they found 17-year-old Sara from Los Angeles, who decorated every inch of her bedroom walls with graffiti. First it was random quotations and dates she needed to remember, and then she began inviting friends to adorn the walls with excerpts from favorite songs and books. "My bedroom is both a representation...
...Tween Eye Move over, Martha! Kid decorators are taking control, turning youth decor into a $17 billion-a-year market...