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...been the staunch resistance of politically potent Cuban-American voters. But the newest bill, the freedom to travel to Cuba act, introduced this year in both the House and Senate, suddenly has Cuban-American backing - and as a result a decidedly better chance of passing. In a recent statement, Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, a Republican and co-sponsor, called this "a very good time for public diplomacy with Cuba."(See a photoessay about the fading sound of Salsa in Cuba...
...years old, and then, four years later, his father, an auto-plant worker, committed suicide. After being primarily raised by a grandmother, Pugh got a ticket out of Detroit with a scholarship to the University of Missouri's journalism school. He then built a successful television-reporting career in Indiana and Virginia before joining the local Detroit Fox News affiliate...
...overcome a Republican-led filibuster. Snowe has said the inclusion of Schumer's provision makes it "difficult" for her to vote yes. Senator Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent who caucuses with the Democrats, has said he cannot vote for the bill as it stands, and moderate Democrats such as Indiana's Evan Bayh, Nebraska's Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas have voiced reservations. Still, Schumer remains upbeat: "Harry Reid is the best vote counter and vote getter that I have ever seen in my 35 years as a legislator," he declared at a press conference...
Americans observed daylight saving, but they didn't like it. In 1972, after much protest, President Richard Nixon signed the so-called Indiana amendment, which allowed states straddling time-zone boundaries to exempt only part of themselves from daylight saving. The result left part of Indiana in Central Time, part in Eastern Time, part observing daylight saving and part observing standard time throughout the year. Indiana resumed observing daylight saving on a statewide basis in 2006, but it still has counties in both Eastern and Central Time...
...Indiana can have two time zones, there's no reason that Russia, 180 times larger and with many millions more people, can't change its clocks to please its easternmost citizens. Two years ago, the U.S. saved energy by starting daylight saving three weeks earlier. Nepal is 15 minutes ahead of India but an hour and 15 minutes behind China. Iran can't decide what to do about daylight saving; its parliament wants to observe it, while President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says no. And in 2007, President Hugo Chávez set Venezuela's clocks forward 30 minutes, supposedly to make...