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...City Council will have to formally adopt the bench as "a permanent part of the park," Pasquarello said...
...problem with this myth is that the best teaching is done by example. Harvard professors teach us how to think by sharing their own thought processes. Students eager to learn (and get good grades) adopt not just the thought processes, but the conclusions, of their professors. Who can blame them? They have little choice in the matter. There's nobody around to show them that these same tools of rational discourse and assiduous research can yield entirely different results...
...quickest fix for the Cuban economy would be an end to the 32-year U.S. embargo, but Bill Clinton is not eager to end the cold war-era isolation. In the long run, if Castro will not or cannot adopt free-market reforms, his % country has little hope of ending what Cubans call the "special period": the current era of acute hardship brought on by the fall of the Soviet empire, which had sustained Cuba's command economy until 1991. If he does institute far-reaching changes and the rest of the world -- despite the U.S. embargo -- responds with trade...
Earlier in the week, when he went public with criticism of the mainstream proposal, Clinton appeared to have given up hope of any sizable achievement. "It will be better not to do anything at all," he said in a speech, "than to adopt a program that would actually increase costs of health care and reduce coverage." One day later came the miracle of the crime bill. With that victory fully in mind, and with his own reform plan going nowhere, Senate majority leader George Mitchell seemed to move away from the bill he introduced a few weeks ago and embarked...
...Administration argues that isolating Castro is the best way to make him democratize, adopt market reforms and compensate Americans for property seized during the revolution. Other countries trade freely with Havana and have long , since struck compensation deals for their own seized assets. But with Cuba's economy in sugar shock -- the yields in cane fields have slumped to levels not seen since the 1920s -- the embargo's boosters hope it will break Castro's back. "Ending the embargo is his No. 1 foreign policy priority," says a U.S. official. And what Castro wants, Washington opposes...