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CUBA
Hardships increase, not ease
BY JAIME SUCHLICKI
Despite mounting economic difficulties, the Cuban government is not likely to open up Cuba's economy or to offer meaningful concessions for normalization of relations with the United States.
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BERNARD MADOFF
Scammers will be punished
BY BART CHILTON
Now that Bernard Madoff seems destined to die in prison, what should we think about the rampant Ponzimonium going on all over the world? It seems there are a few lessons to be learned -- lessons for regulators, investors and the scam artists themselves.
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KIDNAPPING
Why did media keep news secret?
BY EDWARD WASSERMAN
For seven months The New York Times didn't report that one of its correspondents, David Rohde, and two Afghanis who were working with him had been abducted by the Taliban. What's more, the newspaper persuaded some 40 other news organizations that learned of their capture to say nothing.
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President Obama should do what he says about secrecy
OUR OPINION: President Obama promised transparency but often sides with secrecy
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Clean up Miami-Dade governments' relationships with consultants
OUR OPINION: Commissioners' cozy relationship with lobbyists, consultants breaks public trust
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Freedom's promise then, now
OUR OPINION: Holiday celebrates spirit of independence, commitment to liberty for all
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Keep National Anthem
Re Michael Kinsley's June 15 Other Views article New Anthem needed: Keep it. Don't tweak it or do anything to it. It is a great and unique song and great at football and baseball games.
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Madoff had help
I find it very hard to believe that Bernard Madoff's family, who worked with him, knew nothing about his scam. If they weren't smart they would not be in business with him.
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End Honduran coup drama
OUR OPINION: Changing stories, rights repression discredits Honduran authorities
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Supreme Court right about strip search
OUR OPINION: Even in school, students retain some Fourth Amendment rights
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Firefighter ruling no reflection on Sotomayor
OUR OPINION: Ruling in firefighters case has no bearing on Sotomayor's qualifications
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STRAIGHT TO THE POINT
Madoff's big con
Nobody ever accused Bernie Madoff of being stupid, and he proved why during his sentencing hearing Monday. ...
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Exit strategy
OUR OPINION: Deadline for withdrawal from Iraq attainable, but major hurdles remain
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Bad power play
OUR OPINION: Military force no way to deal with constitutional crisis in Honduras
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STRAIGHT TO THE POINT
Crime-free parks
Among the best programs to come out of Miami City Hall lately is the deployment of a new corps of rangers t...
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AGING
When dependence matters
This is probably not the best week to air any reservations about the American passion for independence. Aft...
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CONGRESS
Forget 60 votes, think bipartisan
Now that the Minnesota Supreme Court has ended the long count on the 2008 Senate race by awarding the seat ...
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RUSSIA
Putin's still boss in Moscow
MOSCOW -- As Barack Obama packs his suitcase for his trip to Russia next week, he should bring along a copy...
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CLIMATE CHANGE
Dawn of a new energy politics
Hours before the House passed its cap-and-trade bill last week, freshman Democrats Tom Perriello and Frank ...
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IRAN
A coming storm will sink this regime
It comes as no surprise that the mass demonstrations in the streets of Tehran have finally grown silent, ev...
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SUPREME COURT
Rulings say racial discrimination has eased
The implicit message, delivered by the Supreme Court majority in two of the most important decisions of the...
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JENNY SANFORD
This wife got it right
Not since I sat on the set of WWOR in New York, anchoring the breaking-news coverage of Gary Hart's withdra...
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Keep National Anthem
Re Michael Kinsley's June 15 Other Views article New Anthem needed: Keep it. Don't tweak it or do anything ...
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POLITICS
GOP no party of bigots
Leonard Pitts Jr. has indelibly stamped the word ''bigot'' in the minds of millions of Americans when it co...
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One-liners
I always thought Michael Jackson was a sad, sick, twisted, pathetic individual. But after all the media cov...
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It's a tax
The Miami Herald's June 25 editorial Pass energy bill says that if Congress does not pass the cap-and-trade...
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SMOKING
Make it a crime
Re the July 1 story Smokers fuming over Florida's cigarette tax hike: State Rep. Jim Waldman says: ''I woul...
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EDUCATION
Teachers, not high tech
Re Jeb Bush's June 28 Issues & Ideas article Here's how to transform education: He says that ''virtual educ...
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Runaways need support, shelters, not penalty
Miami urgently needs to build at least one overnight shelter to handle the dramatic increase of runaway chi...
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Finding what works in healthcare
Congress took an important step for healthcare when it provided $1.1 billion to fund ''comparative effectiv...
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Does Jenny Stanford represent a new breed of political wife?
An indication that Gov. Mark Sanford's extramarital affair wouldn't be business as usual was the absence of...
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The U.S. in Iraq: an audit of the pain
Tuesday, the United States ''stood down'' in Iraq, finalizing the pullout of 140,000 troops from Iraqi citi...
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Pakistan seems ready to crack down on Taliban
Has the Pakistani government, after years of vacillation, finally gotten serious about eliminating the Tali...
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Healthcare reform: Second opinions
When President Barack Obama visited Chicago recently to discuss healthcare reform with the American Medical...
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Anne Frank's unstilled voice
Anne Frank would have celebrated her 80th birthday this month. The diary she wrote as a teenager in a cramp...
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The man in the mirror loathed his reflection
What killed Michael Jackson? This autopsy does not require a scalpel. A mirror will do. ''He had the nose o...
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Please don't paint stadium seats orange
The site is finally being cleared for a new Marlins baseball stadium, now estimated to cost $634 million. D...
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Judges and justice should not be for sale
If Sonia Sotomayor becomes the next member of the U.S. Supreme Court, she'll take a seat among colleagues w...
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Camping? Don't forget to bring your gun
Like many other Americans, every time I take my family to a national park I find myself thinking: Wow! If I...
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U.S. prisons even tougher than Gitmo
President Obama's promise to shut down the Guantánamo Bay detention center in Cuba has hit a snag be...
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Crist launches yet another thrilling quest
Ah, Charlie, we hardly knew ye. The lad was but a bronze blur, streaking across the bright Tallahassee firm...
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`Give the poor padre a break'
The bad news for the Roman Catholic Church: Father Alberto Cutié, the widely popular priest at St. F...
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Miami-Dade commissioners driven to spend
When you're a Miami-Dade commissioner, danger lurks at every ribbon-cutting. Just ask Jose ''Pepe'' Diaz. H...
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What was he thinking, and what with?
I have a proposal. Next time some politician goes before the cameras with his figurative pants down around ...
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MICHAEL JACKSON
Scorned, admired -- and mourned
Sometimes, death is a blindside hit. When it comes at the end of a long life as it did last week for 86-yea...
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'Homosexual demon' target of exorcism
To Manifested Glory Ministries of Bridgeport, Conn.: Perhaps you wouldn't mind telling me what a ''homosexu...
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'Thriller' was greatest triumph, greatest tragedy
I got to interview Michael Jackson only once, at the family home in Encino, Calif. This was on the occasion...
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GOP blind to its race problem
The modern GOP was created in 1965 with a stroke of Lyndon Johnson's pen. If that is an exaggeration, it is...
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MINORITIES
The Right is not being persecuted
A reader wants to know why I didn't mention what David Letterman said. John, from Monroe, Wash., wrote in r...
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SCREEN GEMS
The week ahead in movies and TV
BIG SCREEN The Hangover (R): May is too early to proclaim any movie the funniest of the year, but for sheer...
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AFGHANISTAN
'Bloody' mission goes awry
It may seem a little paradoxical for a journalist to say, but I reallllly hope Robert Gates was lying to us...
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OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
A lot of talk, too little clarity
You know what they say about monkeys, typewriters and Shakespeare. My question is, if you sat an infinite n...
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TV NEWS
NBC renews 'Southland' and Amy Poehler, adds six shows
NBC unveiled a good chunk of its fall programming Monday, announcing six new series and renewing a couple o...
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SECOND AMENDMENT
Why can't students say 'guns' in school?
Media snicker of the day: those crazy gun nuts, worried that the government is out to snatch their constitu...
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