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LaTourette doesn't let boundaries bind him Sunday, July 17, 2005 Sandy Theis Plain Dealer Columnist Washington -- Need something from Congress? Maybe a bridge or a road in Cleveland, or preservation of 1,200 civilian jobs that the Pentagon is threatening to cut? You could call your congressman, Dennis Kucinich, or your congresswoman, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, depending on whether you live on the west or east side of town. You'd be better off, however, leaving Cleveland and grabbing Steve LaTourette. The bearded, sixth-term congressman from Lake County has become Cleveland's most effective representative in Washington. "He is our champion," says one...

About 200 intellectuals, activists and artists from Latin America and the United States issued a letter Monday urging the top United Nations human rights watchdog to choose Cuba's side in an expected battle over the communist country's rights record. A U.S.-backed resolution to condemn the island's record is usually presented at every spring meeting in Geneva of the U.N. Human Rights Commission, which this year was to open Monday and run through April 22. No resolution targeting the island has emerged this year. But Cuba expects such a proposal will be presented and considered in mid-April. "We urge the governments...