davidl on January 2nd, 2009

Fidel Castro's chair

Fifty years Castro’s Cuba, Damien Cave, New York Times:

Here in South Florida, where roughly 850,000 Cubans have settled over the years, repeated waves of painful exile and family separation define the Castro era. The revolution never met their

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davidl on January 1st, 2009

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Roland Burris is a disagreeable mediocrity as a politician.

Voters have rightly rejected him numerous times in his bids for higher office—governor, U.S. senator, mayor of Chicago—because he’s at least six parts ego to one part performance, a charmless, presumptuous

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davidl on January 1st, 2009

Israel’s iron fist:  death of a senior Hamas leader has been confirmed:

GAZA (Reuters) – Israel killed a senior Hamas leader in an air attack on his home on Thursday, striking its first deadly blow against the top

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Eric Florack on January 1st, 2009

HangoverI begin to think that my body is reacting out of habit. I woke up this morning with a headache that would kill most mortals, my tongue had gone cashmere, my stomach was threatening a violent rejection of anything resembling

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