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(AP) WASHINGTON – A U.S. State Department spokesperson said Thursday the U.S. does not see any willingness on Cuba’s part to seriously discuss the release of imprisoned American contactor Alan Gross, and urged Havana to send him home as a humanitarian gesture. State Department spokeswoman Neda Brown was responding to a senior Cuban diplomat’s comment Wednesday that her country was prepared to negotiate a solution in the case and was awaiting a U.S. response. Gross was working on a USAID-funded democracy building program when he was arrested in 2009 at Havana’s Jose Marti airport. He says he was only trying to provide Internet service to the island’s small Jewish community. Cuba says the multimillion-dollar programs are an effort by Washington to undermine the government, and has noted that Gross was carrying sophisticated communications equipment. Wife sees American jailed in Cuba, fears he’ll dieOfficial: Cuba ready to talk about Gross caseNY rabbi meets with jailed American in Cuba Gross was sentenced to 15 years, and has lost his final appeal, leaving him out of legal options. Previously, senior officials in Cuban President Raul Castro’s government have raised the case of five Cuban agents sentenced to long jail terms in the United States, though they have not spelled out publicly that they are seeking an exchange for the 63-year-old Maryland man, who has been held for 2 and 1/2 years. “The...

The book, currently untitled, will be co-authored by Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verducci and will include Torre’s memories of the Yankees, with whom he won four World Series championships, and general thoughts on the game. Doubleday, an imprint of Random House Inc., will publish the book in the spring of 2009. “Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees,” Torre said in a statement issued Thursday by Doubleday. “It was a wonderful 12 years and I look forward to sharing my thoughts and perspective on how the game has evolved.” According to Doubleday, Torre will explain his “decision to walk way from the job of manager of the Yankees, but only as the endgame in explaining in unprecedented detail what history will record as the `Torre Era.”‘ Torre signed a three-year, $13 million contract to manage the Dodgers last Thursday, exactly two weeks after walking away from the New York Yankees when they offered a one-year contract worth $5 million plus $3 million in performance bonuses he termed “an insult.” The Yankees were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs this fall and haven’t won a World Series since 2000. Torre completed a three-year, $19.2 million contract with the Yankees this year. Financial terms of Torre’s book were not disclosed. The biggest sports book deal in recent memory was for 10000 꽁 머니 tennis great...

Conservative firebrand Glenn Beck is back – gambling on a new platform. He launched a new daily program Monday night on his new, Internet-based network called – what else? – GBTV. As CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller notes, Beck is taking on a new medium. “We are starting a movement in America,” Beck said during his first show. He’s one of the most controversial figures in media – part teacher, and part preacher. “There is courage in our times!” he said from a stage at one point. Now, just three months after that program ended, Beck has returned, taking on subjects ranging from 9/11 to the economy. Of the tenth 9/11, he said, “We will lucky at best if the next generation recognizes something actually happened on this date in history, 9/11.” On the economy: “The president is a Marxist. There, I said it!” “He’s really setting himself as this multi-media powerhouse,” says Glynnis MacNicol, editor of Business Insider’s blog, “The Wire,” “and seeing if the world is ready to watch TV on the Internet.” Pushing boundaries is nothing new for Beck. During his two years at Fox News, he rose to prominence, cultivating a committed following with emotional outbursts, such as when he said, through tears, “I’m sorry. I just love my country, and I fear for it.” He was also noted for his fiery statements, 카지노사이트 such...