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...Castro, who turns 80 August 13 and is, say official communiques, recovering from major intestinal surgery, last week handed provisional power to his younger brother and defense minister, Raul Castro. At first, Miami's politically potent Cuban exiles exulted in the streets of Little Havana. But when the reality sunk in that Fidel is most likely still alive - and that his communist dictatorship may well endure under Raul even if he's not - it also reminded many Cuban-Americans that their once ardent hopes of reclaiming confiscated property could be, as one Pentagon analyst says, "a pipe dream." A report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba After Castro: Can Exiles Reclaim Their Stake? | 8/5/2006 | See Source »

...promises stating that their vessels' owners would later pay the Confederate government money equal to the vessels and their cargos. Once the signatures were secured, those two vessels would be allowed to return to safe harbor in San Francisco. The eight others would be burned to the waterline and sunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Odyssey of the Shenandoah | 6/26/2006 | See Source »

...Overseers’ visiting committees. As Morton and Phyllis Keller describe in their book “Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America’s University,” Buck’s findings were far from promising: “complete indifference.... The function has sunk to so low a repute that few believe anything can be done with the device...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Overseeing—But Not Heard? | 6/7/2006 | See Source »

...weren't the levees high enough? Engineers failed to account for how quickly the soil in Louisiana had sunk in recent years, so levees were in some cases 2 ft. lower than they were meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Katrina Mea Culpa | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

...where the thin mountain air was reputed to encourage promiscuity. As Gilmour notes, almost all the ICS men couldn't wait to retire, collect their pension and get back to Britain. Yet once home, a strange fondness for India would often afflict them, and they would spend their evenings sunk in a club chair with a gin and tonic, boring everyone with endless tales of the Punjab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Few Good Men | 5/29/2006 | See Source »

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