41.  Defying the odds, he left it on even after Ordonez had taken two strikes.

42.  Cuba has long accepted leftist guerrilla groups engaged in hostage taking.

43.  Cuban authorities would let Mr. Fornieles take only $5 out of the country with him.

44.  Cuban cafeterias offer plated foods to take home as well as eat in the restaurants, and they are often among the best food bargains found anywhere.

45.  Cuban exiles quickly ridiculed the survey, asserting that no poll taken in a country where free speech is curtailed can be accurate.

46.  Cuban officials, Cubas added, take liberties with players' ages, making them appear to be older for two reasons.

47.  Cuban outdid even himself, which takes a ton of outdoing.

48.  Cuban prisoners threatened with deportation took hostages at a federal prison in Talladega, Ala., in 1991.

49.  Cuban-Americans are planning to go near the site where the downings took place.

50.  Cuban-Americans in West Palm Beach, who protested in large numbers when Elian was seized by federal agents, took the latest setback quietly.