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HAVANA (AFP) - More than a thousand cigar lovers from 60 countries ringed the center of the cigar universe in Havana, comparing notes and celebrating Cuba's finest smokes. Distributors, specialists and simple aficionados packed opening day of the Eighth Habanos Festival, an annual event sponsored by Habanos, a global distributor of the esteemed Cuban cigar. British actor Joseph Fiennes was among a hundred celebrities on hand for the festivities, dedicated this year to Habanos' leading brand, Cohiba. The presence of the 36-year-old actor at the event, who played the lead of Will Shakespeare in the 1998 film comedy "Shakespeare in...

RAZORMOUTH: Those World-Affirming DudesReverend P. Andrew Sandlin | Why I love RazorMouth For the better part of my adult life, I've worked to recapture our culture for Jesus Christ. This is what the Center for Cultural Leadership is all about. I've increasingly come to question the one-sidedness of Dick Weaver's book title-cum-aphorism, "Ideas Have Consequences." Well, true enough. But it must be wedded to an equally valid aphorism: "People Create Consequences." Ideas are not objective entities that float in midair—they have meaning only as they inhere in people. As John Lukacs reminds us, "[I]deas do not exist apart from the...