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Case of detained American hampers U.S. effort to ease ties

State security arrested aid worker Alan Gross in December at the Havana airport after he allegedly provided unauthorized satellite Internet connections to Cuba's tiny Jewish community. Alan Gross usually celebrates Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year that started at sundown Wednesday, by playing mandolin in the klezmer band that accompanies his guitar-strumming rabbi in the High Holiday service.

Alabama's Bryant-Denny Stadium: Where History and Tradition Meet Excellence

Review originally published on  StadiumJourney.com They have been playing football at the University of Alabama for over 118 years, but it was almost four decades before Alabama began playing their football at what is now known as Bryant-Denny Stadium. In the beginning Alabama did not have a home football field so some of the Crimson Tide's first football games were held at locations like ...

"Obama has to be persuaded to avoid nuclear war"

HAVANA. He was fighting for his life for four years. Entering and leaving the operating room, intubated, being fed intravenously, catheters, frequent lapses into unconsciousness…