| Thu, 17 May 2012 Andy Garcia lines up financing for Hemingway film
| Los Angeles, May 17 (IANS/EFE) Cuban-American actor Andy Garcia has lined up the financing for his film project on legendary writer Ernest Hemingway, who will be played by Anthony Hopkins, the Deadline blog reported Wednesday. | "Hemingway & Fuentes" will also s... | Obituary: Carlos Fuentes / Novelist in Mexico was political activist
| Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's elegant public intellectual and grand man of letters, whose panoramic novels captured the complicated essence of his country's history for readers around the world, died on Tuesday in Mexico City. He was 83. | His death was confirmed... | Today in History: May 17
| May 17, 1954 The U.S. Supreme Court, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, unanimously struck down racially segregated public schools. | 1792 The New York Stock Exchange had its origins as a group of brokers met under a tree on Wall Street. | 1912 The Socialist Pa... | Cuba's crumbling housing stock
| In Havana, seven out of every 10 houses need major repairs, according to official statistics. | Many residents own their homes, but many have lacked the funds to maintain them and as buildings collapse or are deemed inhabitable, a housing shortage has formed. | Local ... | Authorities ID man found dead at Castro Valley house
The 29-year-old Hayward man was pronounced dead after his body was discovered by deputies in a blood-soaked home. An autopsy has been performed but his cause of death was not released. | ... | James Abdnor, Former South Dakota Senator, Dies at 89
| James Abdnor, a South Dakota Republican farmer who liked to say that he got off his tractor and went to Washington, where he served four terms in Congress and one in the Senate after defeating the liberal Democrat George S. McGovern in 1980, died on Wednesday in Sioux... | US unlikely to condemn Argentina’s ‘outlaw behavior’ — yet
| A U.S. congressional proposal aimed at expelling Argentina’s populist-leftist government from the G-20 group of the world’s leading economies faces an uncertain future, not the least because it lacks significant support from unexpected quarters — ... | Carlos Fuentes embraced Chicago
| Internationally acclaimed Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes loved The Drake. Every time he came to Chicago, Fuentes always stayed at the legendary hotel. | In 1999, I met Fuentes for an interview there, where he came to a meeting room elegantly dressed. We talked briefl... | Daughter of Cuban leader Raul Castro to visit U.S
| (Reuters) - Cuban President 's daughter is scheduled to visit California next week to speak at a conference of experts on Latin America during a rare U.S. trip by a member of ruling family. | Sexologist Mariela Castro, 50, will discuss Cuba's policies on sexual issues... | Daughter of Cuban leader Raul Castro to visit U.S
| HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro's daughter is scheduled to visit California next week to speak at a conference of experts on Latin America during a rare U.S. trip by a member of Cuba's ruling family. | Sexologist Mariela Castro, 50, will discuss Cuba's ... | |
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