As a doctoral candidate researching Cuba, I just returned from a seven-week visit to the island. I witnessed firsthand the Cuban reaction to President Bush’s new provisions aimed at stemming the flow of hard currency reaching Cuba and hastening the end of Fidel Castro’s rule.
This year’s marked decline in international graduate student applications, largely attributed to the difficulty of obtaining student visas in the wake of Sept. 11, is ironic. If history is any guide, the foreign students we’re losing as a result of the war on terrorism may be the very ones we need to help us win it.
When 1st Lt. Paul Rieckhoff, a National Guardsman and Iraq veteran, delivered the Democratic response to President Bush’s weekly radio address on Saturday, criticizing the administration’s war planning and operations, people took notice.
If you’re keeping score of who’s filling up their campaign coffers the fastest this election season, you’d be wise not to focus your attention on the state parties or the candidates.
In the midst of the recent bombings in Spain, the turmoil in the Middle East, and the weak growth of American jobs, both George W. Bush and John Kerry are paying close attention to a “seemingly” minor issue: Cuba.
The Food and Drug Administration would have consumers believe they’re taking a huge risk when they send their prescriptions to pharmacies north of the border, where the same drugs cost far less than they do here.