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Castillo, who was serving a 33-year prison sentence in Cuba for arson, is marking his first anniversary in the U.S. He is one of the 125,000 Cubans who clambered hopefully aboard a ragtag flotilla bound for the U.S. from the harbor of Mariel, 27 miles west of Havana. Most of them were ordinary seekers of liberty. But the Cuban government supplied some of the passengers, including inmates like Castillo, who were taken from prisons and asylums and ordered aboard for the 110-mile trip to Florida. Whatever brought them to the U.S., the Marielitos have one shocking discovery...
...perhaps triggered by stress-that causes these ancient mammals to seek the safety of the land from which their ancestors migrated. The beach-bound victims are usually small, toothed whales, like the pilot and false killer. But when a whale tried to beach itself just east of New York harbor, it was a very special case...
...Friday night, 300 guests gathered in the Kennedy Library's vast Glass Pavillion for a reception and black-the banquet illuminated only by dozens of tiny shotglass candles and the glittering lights of the skyline across the harbor...
...liberated him. The veteran officer was a brigadier general by August 1861, a major general the following February after winning the unconditional surrender of Fort Donelson in Tennessee. Grant soon perceived that the war meant annihilation. He pursued that vision personally in bloody battles at Vicksburg, Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor, and more remotely when he commanded Philip Sheridan to leave the Shenandoah Valley "a barren waste...
...McFeely takes pains to show, Grant was no war lover. At Cold Harbor, it was Robert E. Lee who used his sharpshooters to pin down any movement on the battlefield, and Grant who pleaded with him for a chance to collect the wounded. Eleven years later, in 1875, when a new rebellion threatened to break out in Mississippi, Grant refused to commit federal troops lest a new war begin...