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Bachmann: Hezbollah May Be Planning Cuban Bases

Rob Quinn — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:00:00 CDT

Ready for another Cuban missile crisis? Hezbollah is working with the Cubans, and may be building missile bases and training camps on the Caribbean island, according to Michele Bachmann. "There’s reports out that Cuba has been working with Hezbollah. And Hezbollah is potentially looking at wanting to be part of...

'Vindictive' Documentary on Kennedys Ignites Furor

Jane Yager — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:13:00 CST

A History Channel miniseries on the Kennedy family that won't be aired for nearly a year has already raised the ire of Kennedy historians and liberal critics who call the series' script a historically inaccurate hatchet job that portrays the JFK presidency salaciously. The Kennedys is being produced by Joel...

Jackie's Charm Sparked US Visit by Mona Lisa

Ambreen Ali — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:42:01 CDT

Jackie Kennedy executed a diplomatic coup in 1962, when she convinced the smitten French culture minister to send the Mona Lisa on a perilous journey. The painting's visit to the US—"then regarded as a country with hardly any culture at all," in the words of one historian—is the...

JFK Negotiated (and Got His Butt Kicked)

Jason Farago — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:55:26 CDT

On the campaign trail, Barack Obama often invokes a JFK maxim—"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate"—to back up his commitment to talk to America's enemies. But in a Times op-ed, two writers observe that Kennedy learned a tough lesson when...

Cuba Takes a Swing at Golf

Jim O'Neill — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:17:50 CST

Nearly a dozen tony golf-resort projects funded by Spanish, British, and Canadian consortiums are under way in Cuba as acting President Raul Castro tries to lure foreign tourists—and their cash—back to the struggling island nation by creating a new Caribbean golf destination, reports the Wall Street Journal. Castro...