Jackson Browne & Friends - Including Bonnie Raitt, Joan Baez, Ben Harper & The Relentless 7, and Ry Cooder - Will Rock the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on November 29 in a Benefit Concert for Hurricane Relief.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- On Saturday, November 29, singer-songwriter Jackson Browne & Friends -- including Bonnie Raitt, Joan Baez, Ben Harper & The Relentless 7, and Ry Cooder -- will convene for a one-night-only Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium to raise funds...

Reinier Alcantara tried very, very hard to make Cuba's soccer roster, because World Cup qualifying was being played in Washington, D.C.
Reinier Alcantara tried very, very hard to make Cuba's soccer roster, because World Cup qualifying was being played in Washington, D.C. He made it. And he had a plan to defect. It wasn't easy, but he found a crease, and he ran like hell. He ran for blocks and...

Last man out: memoirs of the last U.S. reporter Castro kicked out of Cuba during the Cold War.
9780981600208 Last man out: memoirs of the last U.S. reporter Castro kicked out of Cuba during the Cold War. Wheeler, John Fenton. Demers Books LLC 2008 187 pages $14.95 Paperback PN4874 ...

La emocionante Vuelta México Telmex 2008.
Hace poco más de un mes tuvo lugar un acontecimiento que alegró a los aficionados al ciclismo: la Vuelta México TELMEX 2008, que después de 5 años de no realizarse conjuntó 20 equipos (10 nacionales y otros tantos extranjeros, como las selecciones de Serbia, Cuba y Guatemala y representaciones...

War crimes verdict.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [4] GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- The crime: terrorism. The weapon: a video camera. The second war crimes trial to go before a U.S. military tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay naval base ended with a guilty verdict on November 3. Prosecutors accused Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, a...

Words in the news.
Below are some key words used in this issue of Current Events. Guantanamo Bay naval base (page 3) This base is home to the United States' primary detention center for terrorism suspects. The U.S. government leased the land in Cuba from the Cuban government in 1903. The...

The changing dynamic of Cuban civil society.
9780813031927 The changing dynamic of Cuban civil society. Ed. by Alexander I. Gray and Antoni Kapcia. U. Press of Florida 2008 202 pages $59.95 Hardcover Contemporary Cuba JL1016 Gray...

World of confusion: the Vatican Library holds a previously unstudied map from the 16th century that raises intriguing questions about European conceptions of Columbus's voyages to the New World.
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Exploration in the Middle Ages and Renaissance was a tricky business--something that's easy to forget and perhaps hard to grasp for a society used to the conveniences of satellite images and GPS. Christopher Columbus, for example, spent six weeks in 1493 sailing along the southern...

Jackson Browne & Friends - Including Bonnie Raitt, Joan Baez and Ry Cooder - Will Rock the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on November 29 in a Benefit Concert for Hurricane Relief.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- On Saturday, November 29, singer-songwriter Jackson Browne & Friends - including Bonnie Raitt, Joan Baez and Ry Cooder - will convene for a one-night-only Hurricane Relief Benefit Concert at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium to raise funds to help survivors of the second...