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...French artist Eugene Delacroix did something that would change the course of his own art, and to no small degree that of French painting itself. He left Paris and went to Morocco -- an arduous journey in those days, on winter roads to Marseilles and then by naval frigate to Tangier. It was made easier by his connections. The 34-year-old painter was traveling with his friend, a French diplomat named Charles de Mornay, sent to conclude a treaty with Moulay Abd-er-Rahman, the Sultan of Morocco. (France had conquered neighboring Algeria the year before and did not want...
...Huddled together under a drab army tent, six Cuban refugees trade fantasies about an uprising to liberate the detention camp at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo, where they have been imprisoned for the past four months. They couldn't know that later in the week, 1,000 Cubans at a detention camp in Panama would riot, and that before it was over, more than 220 American soldiers would be injured and 19 Cubans hospitalized. That was at a camp with only about 8,500 refugees; at Guantanamo there are 22,500, making it potentially even more explosive...
...Soviet Union, they said, had stranded about 1,300 lbs. of uranium at the sprawling Ulba Metallurgical Plant on the windswept steppes, 20 miles outside the city of Ust-Kamenogorsk. The material had been sent to the plant in the 1970s to be made into fuel rods for Soviet naval vessels. While the Soviets had abandoned it as their union collapsed in 1991, it remained quite a prize: there was enough nuclear material there to spawn as many as 36 atom bombs...
Breaking with other federal courts that have ruled for gays in similar cases, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the dismissal from the Naval Academy of a top-ranked, openly gay midshipman. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected at some point to settle the constitutionality of dismissing military personnel who don't hide their homosexuality...
Although the winds were not entirely cooperative, the Crimson triumphed with a second-place finish, losing by three points to the Naval Academy...