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Oswaldo Paya is something Cuban President Fidel Castro has rarely, if ever, faced: a dissident as hardheaded as he is. When Castro took power in 1959, Paya was the only kid in his Havana primary school who refused to become a Communist Youth member. In high school, after openly criticizing the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, he was sent to a labor camp for three years. Rather than escape to Miami in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, he stayed in Cuba to work for democratic reform. Now his doggedness has prompted one of Castro's most ironfisted crackdowns: scores of Paya...
...damage and pollution turn collagen--the protein scaffolding that holds the inner skin firm--into protein mush. At the same time, the dermis begins to lose much of the moisture it once retained, and it becomes parched, withered and incapable of keeping the outer skin taut. "Fillers give youth to the face because they add the volume that time has taken away," explains Dr. Fredric Brandt, a dermatologic surgeon with practices in Miami and New York City...
...flagship mini-series for the May sweeps: a biography of the young Adolf Hitler from adolescence through his rise to power. Jewish leaders charged that the mini-series might make Hitler sympathetic, by showing him out of the context of the Holocaust, or blame his evil on an unhappy youth. In the New York Times, Maureen Dowd suggested that the network was using the project to court young viewers. Says CBS president Leslie Moonves: "You would have thought we were going to have a handsome young guy dancing in the streets of Munich...
DIED. WALTER SISULU, 90, steadfast, low-profile crusader against apartheid who, with close friend Nelson Mandela, led the African National Congress (A.N.C.), co-founded its Youth League and engineered the struggle for South African democracy; in Soweto, South Africa. Sisulu, who recruited Mandela into the A.N.C. and later served as his trusted adviser during Mandela's presidency, spent a quarter-century with Mandela in the Robben Island prison. The son of a construction worker and a maid, he inspired reverence among inmates with his teachings and strength. "It was not possible to despair," he said after his release. "The spirit...
...works in a morgue (Eliza Dushku, who played Faith on "Buffy") discovers she can travel back in time 24 hours to prevent the untimely deaths she encounters. (It's "Groundhog Day," the action series.) And "The O.C." - which premieres over the summer - returns to "90210" territory with a youth soap about a kid from the wrong side of the tracks who moves to ritzy Newport Beach in Orange County, Calif...