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...He’s extremely coachable, that’s one of his best characteristics,” Dawson says. “It was a pleasure not only playing with him but helping him after my career was done to become the outstanding player he is today...
...Others are worried, though. Fleshing out how people view the concept of Frenchness today has sparked controversy, as one might expect. Detractors have loudly denounced the initiative as stealing the national-identity page from Le Pen's playbook - and casting suspicion on immigrants, naturalized citizens and French-born minorities as posing threats to it. Some opponents have also accused the government of using an emotive issue to try to divert attention from a series of high-profile political scandals in recent months, such as the accusations of nepotism surrounding a bid by President Nicolas Sarkozy's son to attain...
...effort by the Roman Catholic Church that brought 14,000 unaccompanied minors to the U.S. from Cuba in the early 1960s. He has never gone back. "I am a political exile by definition, which means I left because I found the political conditions to be deplorable," says Azel, who today is a senior research associate at the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies. "Until those conditions change, I will not return." But while he supports the travel ban, Azel recognizes the views of the old guard are changing. "Exiles themselves have changed," he says. "They...
...treaty's supporters have long argued that the measures are essential to ensure the organization designed over half a century ago for six member countries can meet the demands of more than two dozen nations and a half billion people today...
...commemoration simply taught the young how to become revolutionary. Where there is injustice, children are told, "protest." It is not by accident that the opposition chants are from the original 1979 Revolution. The holidays, practices, slogans, and iconography that constitute the Islamic Republic of Iran appear to have provided today's green-clad protesters with an arsenal to use against a state that they increasingly see as repeating the mistakes of the regime overthrown three decades...