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...The first guest to arrive is Ignatius J Reilly, John Kennedy Toole’s elephantine protagonist....
...The FT’s Latin America editor, Michael Stott, discusses the island’s future in the post-Castro era....
...Normal perhaps in Mao’s China, Castro’s Cuba or 1975 Vietnam, but this has never been seen before in recent US history....
...Clarete 2016 Ribera del Duero £27.50 Hedonism, Vagabond Remelluri Reserva 2012 Rioja About £35 Noble Green, Forest Wines, Bottle Apostle, Hedonism Casa Castillo, Las Gravas 2017 Jumilla £37.60 Indigo Wine Castro...
...Letter in response to this report: US’s biggest problem in Cuba is not Putin / From Richard J Salvucci, San Antonio, TX, US...
...The weakest link is Amanda Castro’s Anita, adequate but lacking the spitfire sass of some of her illustrious predecessors. Peter J....
...J&J’s Remicade sales skid amid cheaper competition Alcoa Alcoa is expected to report higher revenues, led by improving alumina and aluminium prices....
...His conclusion is withering: “The strong attraction to the dictatorships of Stalin, Mao or Castro was able to a certain extent, to serve as substitute for a banal local impotence.”...
...prior knowledge of the mafia, J Edgar Hoover or Fidel Castro....
...Inés de Castro, January 24-31, Theatre Royal, Glasgow, then Edinburgh James MacMillan’s first opera was commissioned by Scottish Opera back in 1996....
...Norman Mailer: A Double Life, by J Michael Lennon, Simon & Schuster, RRP£30/$40, 960 pages Obviously, Norman Mailer should be reviewing the authorised biography of Norman Mailer....
...He also travelled to Cuba, where he met Fidel Castro and landed the first western newspaper interview with Rául Castro....
...The agency’s legendary and almost pathologically paranoid chief, J. Edgar Hoover, was even tapping Kennedy’s phone calls without the White House’s knowledge, as well as figures like Martin Luther King....
...Fidel Castro. 7. Dante....
...History is littered with young phenoms who endured – for example, Genghis Khan, William Pitt the Younger and Fidel Castro. All left their marks, for good and ill. Literature has its share, too: J.D....
...Albert Einstein, meanwhile, is more popular than Princess Diana; J.K. Rowling is less sought after than Fidel Castro, and the Carpenters are sexier than Madonna....
...Strawberry and Chocolate is a superb Cuban film from 1993, a little classic about gay freedom and its aspirations versus Fidel Castro and his Marxist straitjacketing....
...Rebolledo, Mencía 2007 Valdeorras (Raymond Reynolds)Raúl Pérez, Castro de Valtuille 2005 Bierzo (Indigo Wines)Dominio de Tares, Bembibre 2005 Bierzo (Raymond Reynolds)Quinta da Pellada, Jaen 1999 Dão (Egans...
...Macy’s, Nordstrom, Gap, Limited Brands, J Crew and Abercrombie & Fitch all reduced their earnings forecasts....
...After all, one Castro has handed control of his country to another Castro....
...Dennis Hastert, speaker of the House of Representatives, said in a letter last week to General Jorge Castro, Colombia’s police chief, that as a result of the initiative, “Afghan forces fighting narco-terrorism...
...Fidel Castro is another dictator who has flourished in isolation. Every time the US considers lifting its embargo, Mr Castro unleashes a provocation designed to ensure against normalising relations....
...In a world exclusive, Observer can reveal that Chávez has helped Castro find a substitute for the Cohiba cigars he was forced to give up in the early 1980s for health reasons....
...THE MAN WHO INVENTED FIDEL: Castro, Cuba and Herbert L....
...It also contains articles from contemporary writers, including J.M. Coetzee and Paul Auster, about the impact of the great absurdist’s unremittingly bleak but ground-breaking work....
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