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...that the U.S. could intervene in the country's affairs if necessary (later relinquished) and that it be granted a perpetual lease on its naval base at Guantánamo Bay (not). For the next half-century the two countries more or less cooperated, with the U.S. helping to squash rebellions and heavily investing in the economy of its tiny neighbor. The American mafia used Havana as a conference center in 1946. Ernest Hemingway lived there for 22 years; he wrote The Old Man and the Sea at his villa just outside the capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S.-Cuba Relations | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...Squash...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks | Title: MIT—Now Inferior in Another Way | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...Women's Squash...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks | Title: MIT—Now Inferior in Another Way | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...preparing to spin off or drop Saturn as part of the effort to regain viability, the beleaguered automaker is now spending millions of dollars on ads for Saturn during the telecasts of the NCAA Basketball Tournament. "We're Still Here," one ad emphatically says, as if to squash rumors to the contrary. "It was an odd thing to see because it's a short-term fix. It's obviously part of a holding action," says Alan Baum, an analyst with The Planning Edge in Birmingham, Mi. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GM's Saturn, Apparently Doomed, Still Pitching Hard | 3/27/2009 | See Source »

...annual pilgrimages, and spend a lot of time in nonsense chanting—I understand that they are not going to provide me with answers to the big philosophical questions. The Hasty Pudding Theatricals doesn’t know why we have toes or where HUDS gets all that squash...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Fasting and Prayer | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

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