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Pakistani doctor caught between counterterrorism and treason
World NowThe treason conviction and 33-year prison sentence given the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA locate Osama bin Laden last year has outraged U.S. leaders who see Shakeel Afridi as a hero in their campaign against terrorism. A Senate panel voted to slash... -
Fidel Castro's niece heading to Bay Area with rare U.S. visa
World NowMariela Castro, the outspoken daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro and niece of his brother Fidel, is scheduled to appear this week at a major conference in San Francisco after receiving a controversial U.S. visitor's visa.... -
Carlos Fuentes dies at 83; Mexican novelist
If Carlos Fuentes could have invented the perfect character to star in one of his novels, he might have come up with a protagonist named Carlos Fuentes. That character would be a glamorous global citizen who was born in Panama as a diplomat's son, then...
Tags: Mexico City, Hugo Chavez, Gregory Peck, Literature, Europe
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Unabomber billboard continues to hurt Heartland Institute
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.With a simple statement on Tuesday, State Farm Insurance became the latest company to withdraw its support from the Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based think-tank which claims a “realist” position questioning that humans are responsible for...Tags: F James Jr Sensenbrenner, Companies and Corporations, Vaclav Klaus, Insurance, Johnnie Walker
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Q&A: 'The Dictator'
It's not often that an oppressive dictator sits down with the free Western press and openly answers probing questions about his rule, his crimes against humanity and his fashion choices — those last two often being one and the same. It's even...
Tags: Six Flags Inc., Republican Party, Politics, Hugo Chavez, Kim Jong Il
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Global warming deniers mount ad campaign calculated to outrage
It has finally happened: The Heartland Institute, an anti-science front group that used to focus on downplaying the dangers of smoking on behalf of Phillip Morris but now spends much of its time denying the scientific consensus on climate change, has...
Tags: Politics, Jeffrey L Dahmer, Osama bin Laden, Science and Technology, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
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A generational divide widens in Cuba
SANTIAGO, Cuba — The way Cesar Cruz and his buddies see it, the "revolution of our grandparents" just doesn't cut it anymore.
The 19-year-old student and his friends gather every Saturday in leafy Cespedes Park in the shadow of Santiago de Cuba's...Tags: Immigration, Arab Spring, India, Science and Technology, Economy
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'The Franchise' goes inside with Miami Marlins' Ozzie Guillen
Show TrackerShowtime is starting to promote its baseball reality series, "The Franchise: A Season with the Miami Marlins," with a preview this weekend that will air just a few days after the return of the team's manager, Ozzie Guillen, who was...... -
Letters: A good or bad sign for UCLA?
It only took ornery Uncle Bill Plaschke about the time of a fastbreak basket to try and put a damper on UCLA basketball fans' greatest day since, well, in a long time. He points out the obvious about Coach Ben Howland being on the hot seat due to...Tags: College Sports, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bipolar Disorder, John Wooden, Magic Johnson
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Should Ozzie Guillen be punished for his Fidel Castro comments?
Ozzie Guillen has caused some controversy less than a week into his first season as manager of the Miami Marlins. That didn't take long, did it? The ever-outspoken Guillen, a former World Series-winning manager of the Chicago White Sox, has apologized...
Tags: Baseball, Miami Marlins, Newspaper and Magazine, Sports, Realty
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Will Pope Benedict XVI, headed to Cuba, meet Fidel Castro?
World NowPope Benedict XVI would be “available” to meet with Fidel Castro should the ailing Cuban leader request an encounter when the pope visits his country later this month, the Vatican spokesman said Friday.... -
Mexicans love the pope --- that other one
World NowTake a look around Mexico's most important Roman Catholic cathedral and you will observe reverence to the pope. However, it's not the same pope who arrives in Mexico in less than a week....
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