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The elderly cigar maker sits at a rustic table next to a tobacco field and a barn filled with hanging rows of aging tobacco and meticulously selects the brown leaves, rolling the most tender ones carefully for the center of the world's most celebrated tobacco product: the Cuban cigar.

Foreign art lovers are breaking bread with Cuban waiters, drivers and parking lot attendants this week in a unique experience that forces diners and chefs alike to overcome barriers of culture, language and five-plus decades of animosity between Washington and Havana.

The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro had some blunt words Wednesday for Cuban-Americans who support economic and travel restrictions between the U.S. and her country, saying "a Cuban Mafia" made up of émigrés "who have no scruples" are holding the American people hostage.

Horrors! But it gets worse: she's coming from Cuba! And - brace yourself - her last name is Castro! If you can think of a more perfect storm of Republican bogeymen, I'd be happy to hear it.

It was all sunshine, smiles and celebratory speeches as officials marked the arrival of an undersea fiber-optic cable they promised would end Cuba's Internet isolation and boost web capacity 3,000-fold. Even a retired Fidel Castro had hailed the dawn of a new cyber-age on the island.

The elderly cigar maker sits at a rustic table next to a tobacco field and a barn filled with hanging rows of aging tobacco and meticulously selects the brown leaves, rolling the most tender ones carefully for the center of the world's most celebrated tobacco product: the Cuban cigar.

Foreign art lovers are breaking bread with Cuban waiters, drivers and parking lot attendants this week in a unique experience that forces diners and chefs alike to overcome barriers of culture, language and five-plus decades of animosity between Washington and Havana.

RaAol Castro's daughter Mariela received a visa to attend a conference of scholars next week, but several less prominent academics have been denied, according to conference organizers.

What's the best way to mark the fifth annual Cuba Solidarity Day? If we want to help the long-suffering people of Fidel Castro's island "paradise," the answer should be obvious: Shine a light on the repression and tyranny that makes daily life there such a grinding ordeal.

The U.S. State Department has given Raul Castro's daughter a visa to attend an academic conference in San Francisco, but it also has rejected about a dozen other Cuban scholars' applications to enter the country.

Archbishop Thomas Wenski Speaks About Pastoral Care of Immigrants ROME, MAY 17, 2012 .- In confronting the war that secular culture is raging against the family, the Year of Faith calls Christians to embrace the faith, and to become shaped by it, according to a Florida bishop who was just in Rome for his five-yearly meeting with the Pope.

The "World's Widest Yard Sale," a new Alabama event, will run for more than 350 miles along U.S. Hwy.

Today's Highlight in History: On May 17, 1937, Teddy Hill and His Orchestra recorded King Porter Stomp'' for RCA Victor's Bluebird label in New York; making his recording debut was trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie.

The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro has been granted a U.S. visa to attend an academic conference in San Francisco and another event, one of her associates confirmed Thursday.

On May 17, 1937, Teddy Hill and His Orchestra recorded "King Porter Stomp" for RCA Victor's Bluebird label in New York; making his recording debut was trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie.

May 17, 1954: The U.S. Supreme Court, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, unanimously struck down racially segregated public schools.

Southern tobacco farmers fear that they could lose a significant portion of their export business if health advocates win a battle to carve tobacco out of a major trade agreement that's being negotiated with eight countries on the Pacific Rim.

Foreign art lovers are breaking bread with Cuban waiters, drivers and parking lot attendants this week in a unique experience that forces diners and chefs alike to overcome barriers of culture, language and five-plus decades of animosity between Washington and Havana.

Rayarena : She's coming not just to San Francisco, she will be at the New York Public Library on 42nd St and... Humberto Fontova : Florida will be a tight contest indeed, FFC.

Foreign art lovers are breaking bread with Cuban waiters, drivers and parking lot attendants this week in a unique experience that forces diners and chefs alike to overcome barriers of culture, language and five-plus decades of animosity between Washington and Havana.