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An article in Sunday’s London Telegraph reported that Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is expected to quit the White House after the midterm elections in November. "I would bet he will…
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By Marc A. Thiessen From The Washington Post Can Charlie Crist accomplish in Florida what Arlen Specter failed to do in Pennsylvania -- woo Democrats to his cause after bolting the GOP…
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By Adam C. Smith From the St. Petersburg Times A new Florida Chamber of Commerce poll suggests Charlie Crist may be widening his lead over Republican Marco Rubio and Democrat Kendrick…
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Lawmakers who want to put an end to embargo tout HR 4645 as pro-democracy, anti-Castro legislation By Jerry Hagstrom For the Capital Press WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A bill that would end the…
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By Michael C. Bender From the Palm Beach Post TALLAHASSEE — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is facing foreclosure on a Tallahassee house after missing five months of…
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By Bill Press In the end, Helen Thomas got the last laugh. Before anybody could throw her out of the White House Briefing Room, she denied her critics the pleasure by walking out on…
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By Antonio Padrinoa.padrino@prodigy.net Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2006, has been, for the past 30 years, carrying out one of the most effective battles against…
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By Saul Landau Three Jews in Tel Aviv talked for hours. One leaves. Another says to the remaining Jew: “God, that man was stupid. He must be a general.” After Israeli commandos…
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By Albor Ruiz From the New York Daily News No more excuses. After 74 of Cuba's best-known dissidents told Congress they support scrapping travel and export restrictions to their…
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By Elíades Acosta Matos At different moments in Cuban history, as if obeying an ancestral spell or a curse, a strange illness afflicts the souls of some people born on this soil. The…
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