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The Butler

Opens Friday, Aug 16, 2013 Synopsis: Director Lee Daniels (Precious) teams up with Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Danny Strong to tell the remarkable story of White House butler Eugene Allen (played by Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker), who served eight U.S. presidents over the course of 30 years, and witnessed sweeping social change during his three decades of service at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Inspired by Wil Haygood's Washington Post article, The Butler features Robin Williams as Dwight D. Eisenhower, James Marsden as John F. Kennedy, Liev Schreiber as Lyndon B. Johnson, John Cusack as Richard M. Nixon, and Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan. Oprah Winfrey, Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Jane Fonda, David Oyelowo, Lenny Kravitz, Melissa Leo, and Vanessa Redgrave co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi Cast: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Terrence Howard, Alan Rickman, Jane Fonda Movie Details Play Trailer Buy Tickets Movie Review

House committee passes bill to address military sexual assaults Wednesday

...86 billion for the war in Afghanistan as well as contentious provisions on the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and nuclear weapons.The full House is expected to vote on the bill next week.Despite the congressional clamor to cut the...

http://juneauempire.com/donna-cassata/2013-06-06/house-committee-passes-bill-add
Finally, Obama breaks his silence on drones

...and London would illustrate, but that the structures we gradually built up in response, from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the drone campaign, cannot remain with us in their ad hoc manner for the long term.Beyond all the internal policy questions...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2013-05-28/finally-obama-breaks-his-silence-dron
Opinion
Cuba upsets Japan 6-3 at World Baseball Classic

...a three-run homer in the eighth inning, helping Cuba defeat two-time defending champion Japan 6-3 Wednesday...run off reliever Takeru Imamura at Fukuoka Dome gave Cuba a 6-0 lead. Cuba set up a second-round showdown with Group B runner-up...

http://juneauempire.com/sports/2013-03-08/cuba-upsets-japan-6-3-world-baseball-c
Sports
Evening at Egan brings home the flavor of Cuba

...lecture, students will share their experience in Cuba last year with the public beginning at 7 p.m...their Spring 2012 UAS semester in the country of Cuba. The students travelled to Cuba with four faculty members to hone their Spanish...

http://juneauempire.com/outdoors/2012-10-26/evening-egan-brings-home-flavor-cuba
Outdoors
UAS in Cuba to be the focus of Evening at Egan

...spring, a dozen UAS students travelled to Cuba with four faculty members to hone their...week's Evening at Egan lecture, "UAS in Cuba: A Semester-long search for Che, Hemingway...to fully explain all my impressions of Cuba.' He's right, but are hoping to offer...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2012-10-25/uas-cuba-be-focus-evening-egan
Art
Outside editorial: Cuba may be backing its words with actions

...Telegraph:It has taken half a century but Cuba has finally bowed to the inevitable and...Castro, who succeeded his brother Fidel as Cuba's president four years ago.His cautious...the speed of change is woefully slow. Cuba remains an impoverished country - the average...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-10-21/outside-editorial-cuba-may-be-backing
Opinion
Chavez death echoes with leftists

HAVANA, Cuba - Reactions to the death of Venezuelan President...always be with us, accompanying us."In Cuba, which has come to rely on Venezuela for...come now, first for Venezuela but also for Cuba," said Sergio Duran, a Havana resident...

http://juneauempire.com/peter-orsi/2013-03-06/chavez-death-echoes-leftists
Chavez back in Venezuela, stirs succession talk

...than two months of cancer treatments in Cuba has fanned speculation that the president...since before his latest cancer surgery in Cuba on Dec. 11, and critics are questioning...raised that possibility before he left for Cuba in December by saying that if necessary...

http://juneauempire.com/jorge-rueda/2013-02-20/chavez-back-venezuela-stirs-succe
Sports On TV

Wednesday, March 6BASEBALL1 a.m., MLB - World Baseball Classic, first round, Japan vs. Cuba, at Fukuoka, JapanCYCLING12:30 p.m., NBCSN - Paris-Nice, stage 3, Chatel-Guyon to Brioude, France (same-day tape...

http://juneauempire.com/sports/2013-03-06/sports-tv
Sports

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