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Damaris was one of the dancers who used to perform with our band--more than 40 years after the Mafia quit Havana, some Cubans still like their music accompanied by girls in slinky sequined outfits with tail feathers. Damaris and the drummer, Piri, wound up having a daughter together but eventually divorced. He moved to Mexico, found a new wife and had another child. So Damaris is raising their child alone in a small apartment in the shadow of the capitol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sound of Change: Can Music Save Cuba? | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

Summers will not have to quit his teaching post at Harvard when he leaves for Washington, according to James H. Stock, the chair of Harvard’s economics department...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers Announced As Obama Economic Advisor | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

Read "How Cuba's Find Could Change the U.S. Embargo Read "Why Bolivia Quit the U.S. War on Drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking Relations with Latin America | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

...state school role-playing fantasy, Queen’s—an actual state school—pulled the plug on its Harvard-Yale analog until at least 2011. Alumni will instead be wooed back to campus for lower-key reunion events in May, after the undergraduate population has quit campus for the summer...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: Boo F—ing Hoo | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...idea of quitting collectively came 12 years after the landmark U.S. Surgeon General's report connecting tobacco use to lung cancer, low birth weight and coronary disease. Lynn Smith, a newspaper editor in Monticello, Minn., and a former smoker, wrote editorials in the 1970s urging others to quit. Smith, who once told the New York Times he started smoking "as a teenager by picking up butts from the street during the Depression," organized a local event called "D-Day," or "Don't Smoke Day," in 1976. The next year, the California chapter of the American Cancer Society sponsored a similar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great American Smokeout | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

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