Jay Nordlinger brings some great news in today's Improptus. A young, cuban couple has defected.
The day before the renowned Cuban National Ballet took to the stage in Daytona Beach, two of its young dancers slipped away in a startling pas de deux, hoping for a new life in America.
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''I began to see how people around the world live, what their individual capacities can achieve in an atmosphere of freedom,'' he told El Nuevo Herald.