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The smell of old books
They even have a society -- Florida Antiquarian Booksellers Association, founded in 1981 -- that every year stages an old-book fair. Perhaps thanks to their cohesion they've lasted for…
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Illegal, but was it wrong?
The French bank BNP Paribas will pay nearly $9 billion in penalties for violating U.S. sanctions against Iran, Sudan, and Cuba. There is no doubt that the bank’s actions were illegal.…
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Advertising in the shade
So long as the State does not take a position, a question mark hovers over the immediate future of advertising in Cuba since it is not contemplated among the procedures used in the…
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Migrant children: A huge humanitarian tragedy
The Central American children who flee from their countries has transformed the U.S.'s southern border into a window that displays the reality of human rights in that country -…
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Phone company cries foul over ‘bypasses’
The confrontation began several weeks ago, in the form of "fraud" and illegalities committed by citizens to evade control of the phone service by the nation's only telecommunications…
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Google visits Havana
Several Google executives, led by its chairman Eric Schmidt, visited Havana on a task that so far can only be identified as one promoting the benefits of Internet. Progreso Weekly asks…
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My life as a retail worker: Nasty, brutish, and poor
After veteran reporter Joseph Williams lost his job, he found employment in a sporting-goods store. In a personal essay, he recalls his struggles with challenges millions of Americans…
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‘Propagandist Fox News more dangerous than ISIS’
Comedian Russell Brand condemned Fox News as a “fanatical terrorist propaganda organization” during a 10-minute tirade on video this week. “Don’t think of a bomb as going down there and…
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World Cup soccer in Miami: Immigrants’ delight
It is us, the immigrants, who have imported to Miami the ambience of the World Cup. Like that bar full of Brazilians, most of them drunk before the game even started, who placed their…
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Cruel but not unusual punishment
The death of Darren Rainey, a mentally ill inmate at Dade Correctional Institution, who was locked in a shower-like “decontamination facility” by guards who then turned on the water…
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