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...Yesterday, we had a visit from people at the King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. They wanted to know our secret,” Editor-in-Chief Michael G. Fisher ’73 says...
...coast of Florida, the two nations have had no diplomatic relations since 1961 and use Switzerland as a mediator whenever they need to talk. But maybe - finally - things might change. On April 13 President Barack Obama announced that he would lift some longstanding restrictions, allowing Cuban Americans to visit and send remittances to their families and easing - but not removing - the 47-year-old economic embargo on the island nation. (Read "Will Obama Open Up All U.S. Travel to Cuba...
...reduction in hours hasn’t fazed the resilient Harvard student. Ricky Kuperman ’11, who was at the post office earlier today, said he doesn’t usually bother with snail mail. Neither does Dominik P. Nieszporowski ’12, who said his visit to the post office yesterday was his "first time in here...
...Nieszporowski didn't even need postal workers for his visit: he used the Automated Postal Center (a machine that issues stamps, prints packaging labels, and only takes credit cards), which will remain open 24/7, Powers said. And if the Harvard student wants that certain human touch when sending his or her mail, Powers had advice for that as well...
...suggested that Cuban Americans are the "best ambassadors" to spread the democratic conversation in Cuba. But Birns and other Cuba-policy watchers consider the general travel ban a violation of U.S. citizens' rights to move freely, and they argue that continuing to make it illegal for non-Cubans to visit the island sends a half-baked message to the rest of Latin America, which views the Cuban embargo as a symbol of Washington's historically imperious approach to the region as a whole. "To have in place a Cuba travel policy that privileges just one small segment of the population...