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...family and had thrown away everything for the cause made her a dashing character in my eyes. She was then and remains today head of Cuba's Women's Federation. People who knew Raúl at the time of the revolution speak of him as hotheaded and daredevilish. He wore his beret a bit sideways then; separate studio photographs of him and Fidel just after their victory show Fidel looking pensive, Raúl beaming with confidence. That was all lost on me in that first encounter. The younger Castro made almost no impression, and I remember wondering how he could...
...news and finally understood. It featured what at first seemed like another Miami Heat victory celebration—hundreds of people dancing to salsa music, waving flags, and cheering loudly by the “Torch of Friendship” in downtown Miami. Then I noticed that almost all wore pins and T-shirts bearing the image of, not Dwayne Wade, but José Luis de Jesús Miranda, a man who claims he is—no joke—Jesus Christ. This was not the first time I had come across the name. A former co-worker...
...American car, and we wore civilian clothes. We had maps and guns in the car. As we reversed quickly, the Syrian soldiers fired at us, hitting the front window. The car skipped over onto an embankment. By then, we were shooting back using pistols and machine guns, and escaped on foot...
...didn't help that Peretz knew about the Qana bombing and hadn't mentioned it. As the day wore on and the dimensions of the tragedy became apparent, Rice called a grief-stricken Lebanese prime minister Fouad Siniora, cancelled her trip to Beirut and in the late afternoon disappeared behind closed doors for an hour-and-a-half meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, the second such meeting in as many days. She called President Bush three times during...
LOUIS XIV Tuck this away for Trivial Pursuit: the Sun King's nickname is said to come from a lavish gold costume he once wore--as a ballet dancer. Louis pirouetted in his youth and established the first professional ballet academy in France in the 17th century...