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By Jilian Mincer From Reuters For generations, most college-bound Americans paid reasonable fees to attend publicly financed state universities. But the bedrock of that system is…
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By Bill Press Somewhere, Newt Gingrich is laughing. Sure, we made fun of him during the primaries. And we cheered when Mitt Romney poured in the big bucks and crushed him like a bug.…
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By Elsa Claro HAVANA – Multidisciplinary teams in various research centers, institutes and universities nationwide are working in the design of what eventually will be an experiment…
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By Elsa Claro HAVANA – Amid a hot and somewhat hopeless summer, a lot of transformations were announced to the Cuban citizenry. A large package that expands and develops measures…
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Water in a basket (blog under construction) By Dalia Céspedes HAVANA – Some months ago, on my way to a friend’s house, I found in a second-hand book stall a second edition (1958) of…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com A mantra, says my dictionary, is a “mystical formula of invocation or incantation…” The mantra of the gun nuts – the gun rights…
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By Carol Morello and Luz Lazo From The Washington Post The fate of Baltimore may rest with immigrants like Alexandra Gonzalez. A native of Puebla, Mexico, Gonzalez feels more at home…
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From the staff of Progreso Semanal/RPA HAVANA – “Oswaldo lived the soul-wrenching role of a Christian layman with a political option. He was totally faithful to his ideas, which didn’t…
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From Progreso Weekly staff MOSCOW – Children from the suburbs of Moscow may be able to spend Russian winters in sunny Cuba, the chairman of the Moscow Region government told a meeting…
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By Saul Landau Western leaders met in Paris last week to discuss possible intervention in Syria where almost 10,000 people have died over the last year of internal conflict. The West…
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