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“Fidel Castro could have been Cuba’s Elvis!” (Dan Rather.) “Fidel Castro is one hell of a guy! “You people would like him!” (Ted Turner to a capacity crowd at Harvard Law School during a speech in 1997.) “Fidel Castro is old-fashioned, courtly—even paternal, a thoroughly fascinating figure!” (Andrea Mitchell.) “Castro has brought very high literacy and great health-care to his country. His personal magnetism is powerful, his presence is commanding.” (Barbara Walters.) “Viva Fidel! Viva Che!” (Jesse Jackson while arm in arm with Fidel Castro himself in 1984.) "Fidel Castro is very shy and sensitive, I frankly like him and...

The year 1963 was very significant for America in many ways. It was the year that the Negro American, the term used back then, revolted openly but in non-violent fashion against a discriminatory system found especially in the south; it was the year that John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, was assassinated; and it was the year that the new President, Lyndon B. Johnson, confirmed America’s continued economic and military support of South Viet Nam. It was also the year, however, that a less remembered court decision took place that had far reaching effects on American cultural...

An 18-year-old man sat in jail Tuesday without bail after an 11-year-old girl walking home from a McDonald's in Davie freed herself from his grasp during a sexual attack, authorities said. Two of the girl's friends were walking nearby and held the suspect down until police arrived, said Davie Police spokesman Lt. Bill Bamford. Police said Rocael Espinoza Andres dragged the girl into an alley as she climbed through an opening in a fence behind a shopping center near the McDonald's in the 13200 block of State Road 84 on Sunday night and forced her into some bushes, police said....

For four and a half months, the identity of the "Piano Man" remained a mystery to the world. He was found on a beach in England and spent months in the hospital. Now, the details are emerging: Andreas Grassl was a young man who desperately wanted to flee his suffocatingly provincial home town in the Bavarian forest. He was also trying to escape life as his family lived it. In summer 2000, the newspaper of Robert Schumann High School -- in the Bavarian town of Cham -- started a new column: "Burn - the List of My Enemies." The author,...

Confirmed: Sex minigame in PS2 San Andreas Cheat unlocks preexisting code in controversy-rocked Grand Theft Auto game, undermining Rockstar Games' claims of hacker mischief. This week saw a Grand Theft Auto game once again at the center of a nationwide controversy. The point of contention this time was the so-called "Hot Coffee" mod for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which had everyone from anti-game crusader Jack Thompson to US Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) percolating with outrage and/or calls for federal game regulation. The Hot Coffee mod first surfaced last month, when the PC version of San Andreas was released. The...

Senator Hillary Clinton has stepped into the controversy over sex scenes in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The senator wants the US Federal Trade Commission to find out who put the explicit material in the game… The downloadable mod was put together by Dutch GTA fan Patrick Wildenborg and is said to unlock mini-games in the recently-released PC version of San Andreas that lets players make game characters have sex…. The PlayStation 2 version of San Andreas was the best-selling game of 2004 in the US.

The AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER #207 December 10, 2002 Monitoring Corporate Agribusiness From a Public Interest Perspective EDITOR\PUBLISHER: A.V. Krebs ADDRESS: PO. Box 2201, Everett, Washington 98203-0201 E-MAIL: avkrebs@earthlink.net WEB SITE: http://www.ea1.com/CARP/ TO RECEIVE: Name and e-mail address CONTRIBUTION$ WELCOME !!! BOOK REVIEW: RATS IN THE GRAIN: The Dirty Tricks and Trials of Archer Daniels Midland, the Supermarket to the World. By James B. Lieber. ROBERT SHERRILL, THE TEXAS OBSERVER: Anyone who had the misfortune to watch the presidential debates may have noticed that the moderator, Jim Lehrer, one of the most overrated journalists of our era, went out of his way...

Acts that don't deserve the prize By Jeff Jacoby, 10/17/2002 www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/290/oped/Acts_that_don_t_deserve_the_prize+.shtml AS A PATRIOT and a man of honor, Jimmy Carter should refuse the Nobel Peace Prize. That act of integrity would win him more respect than anything he has done in the past two decades. The Nobel Peace Prize committee has sometimes shown disturbingly bad judgment, but never before has it awarded the prize with the explicit purpose of castigating the United States. That new low was achieved last week, when the Nobel Committee chairman, Gunnar Berge, emphasized that the award was meant as a denunciation of US policy...

Dissident Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet to be released WILFREDO CANCIO ISLA El Nuevo Herald Thu, Oct. 17, 2002 (Translation by RCB) Doctor Oscar Elías Biscet, one of the most prominent jailed political dissidents in Cuba, will be released next 31st of October after fulfilling a sentence of three years of prison, informed his wife, Elsa Morejón yesterday. The Cuban authorities communicated to her that she had to appear that day, 8 a.m. at the penitentiary Cuba Sí in Holguín, to complete Biscet's, 41, official liberation proceedings. ''He is in good spirits and will continue fighting peacefully for the respect of...

Companies aim for Cubans' cupboards By Vanessa Bauzá Havana Bureau September 27, 2002 http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/cuba/sfl-afoodfair27sep27,0,6010023.story?coll=sfla%2Dnews%2Dcuba HAVANA · Sampling California raisins and inquiring about the milk content of Wisconsin cheese, President Fidel Castro on Thursday welcomed the largest group of U.S. business executives to visit communist Cuba in 42 years to the opening day of the first American food fair. Some 700 executives with hopes of reclaiming the Cuban market are representing 288 companies from 33 states, putting attendance at the U.S. Food and Agriculture Exhibition at twice what organizers expected. Florida businesses lead the pack with 32 exhibitors. Naples cattle rancher...

The AGRIBUSINESS EXAMINER June 21, 2002 #170 Monitoring Corporate Agribusiness From a Public Interest Perspective EDITOR\PUBLISHER: A.V. Krebs ADDRESS: PO. Box 2201, Everett, Washington 98203-0201 E-MAIL: avkrebs@earthlink.net WEB SITE: http://www.ea1.com/CARP/ TO RECEIVE: Name and e-mail address CONTRIBUTIONS WELCOME !!! U.S. APPEALS COURT REINSTATES LAWSUIT ALLEGING ADM AND OTHERS ENGAGED IN CORN SWEETNER PRICE FIXING SCOTT KILMAN, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: The Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a seven-year-old civil lawsuit alleging Archer Daniels Midland Co. and its rivals rigged what is now a $2.4 billion market for a corn sweetener used in everything from soft drinks to candy....

Cuba has now more products to sell. Thanks to Archer Daniel Midland HAVANA (AP) - Touring a Cuban plant where soybeans are transformed into yogurt, the head of American agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland said Wednesday his company now makes regular deliveries of U.S. food to this communist country, forming a strong base for long-term trade. ``Our ships are coming to Cuba from America on a regular basis,'' said G. Allen Andreas, ADM chairman and chief executive. He said that as he spoke, his company's cargo ships were unloading food at ports in Havana, the central city of Cienfuegos and...