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Drama-Filled Schiller Rule Lid-lifter Gives Team USA Early Advantage

A combined arsenal of five top Cuban aces and six “showcase’ Team USA hurlers shut down the opposing offenses in a classic thriller that stretched into extra frames and eventually found the Americans coming out on top by a slim 2-1 count in a contest ultimately decided via the once-lambasted but now increasingly celebrated extra-inning tiebreaker format.

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Pyramids in Cuba, Pyramids in Egypt

Within 24 hours of arriving to Cuba almost three years ago I made the following conclusions about the society at large: smoking is allowed anywhere, yelling long distances is an accepted form of social interaction; and it is never acceptable to snitch on someone stealing something from their workplace..

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Cuba: The Gloves are Off

Making Cuba’s official discourse reflect more and more aspects of everyday reality may well be one of the most important political processes undertaken on the island today. President Raul Castro’s pronouncements Sunday to the parliament were a clear expression of this process.

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Cuba’s Pitching Keeps Hopes Alive in Rotterdam

Team Cuba split a pair of tight games with resurgent Chinese Taipei on Thursday night (3-1) and Friday afternoon (1-2) and now stands on the verge of reaching Sunday’s tournament final. All that is needed now is a repeat performance of last Saturday’s tournament-opening 3-0 whitewashing of a spunky Curacao.

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Cuban Painter Servando Cabrera’s Homoerotic Art

More and more closets are being torn open across the island, to the ultimate benefit of Cuban culture. This past Saturday (June 20) saw the inauguration of an art exhibition showing a collection of homoerotic drawings by renowned Cuban painter Servando Cabrera Moreno (1923-1981).

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