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The Terror War has inverted the familiar socioeconomic pattern of dying for one's country.

Usually, it's been young men, mostly poor and working class, who went off to the front to do and die. But in this war, so far at least, the home front has been the fearful killing field -- at the World Trade Center, in airliners, and in the offices of media companies and prominent politicans. And so the gold stars of mourning go to a new group… more

At the Marcelo Salado primary school in Crdenas, Cuba, the teacher addresses herself each morning to an empty seat. "Elian Gonzlez," says Yamiln Morales Delgado during the roll call of her first-grade class. And as he has for the last four months, the boy who shares Elian's desk… more

Family matters: A pair of Cuban matriarchs come to the United States to make the case for the return of their grandson Elian Gonzalez. A bruising political fight gets even more personal.

Looking as if they'd like to knock a few people on the head with their handbags, two Cuban grandmothers flew into the middle of an American political brawl last week. They… more

A few years ago I went to post a letter in Bogota, Colombia, and was sold a stamp with the image of a robed priest. It was Msgr. Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer, the founder of the Opus Dei, a secretive and elitist movement within the Roman Catholic Church. Conservative and small -- 73,000 adherents, mostly in Spain and Latin America -- its members include powerful men, high government officials … more