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...matter how vehemently he may deny it--and he does--the Cuban leader cannot escape the fact that after 36 years of wily international gamesmanship, he is stranded on the wrong side of history. The Soviet patrons who financed his ``socialist paradise'' for three decades have collapsed. The communist bedrock upon which he built his edifice of power has proved itself bankrupt on virtually every continent of the globe. As his own people clamor for a better life, Cuba's socialist dream appears to be fading fast...
Cuban Americans and conservative politicians in Washington insist that keeping the trade embargo firmly in place will hasten Castro's demise. But this line of thinking ignores the bedrock of loyalty that many ordinary Cubans feel for Castro, whose revolution has provided every adult citizen with free health care, education and a social-welfare net. Castro has long profited by laying the blame for Cuba's economic troubles on the U.S. Resentment of the embargo--particularly when U.S. sanctions against Vietnam have been lifted--only reinforces a fierce pride. Cubans are nationalists even more than they are socialists or incipient...
...grin, buddy-buddy act of their previous six face-to-face meetings and traded barbs. Clinton chided Russia indirectly for opposing NATO's plans to define the criteria for admitting Moscow's former satellites Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary by the end of 1995. NATO is the "bedrock" of European security, said Clinton, and expanding it will make "new members, old members and nonmembers" safer. And if Russia thinks otherwise? Well, tough. "No country outside will be allowed to veto expansion...
...Neil Rudenstine acknowledged that Harvard "needs to serve society...through the work of [its] faculty and students...[b]y old methods and new, [it] must participate even more fully." In October 1994, FAS Dean Jeremy Knowles assured a distinguished gathering of alumni/ae that undergraduates and public service are the bedrock upon which Harvard rests its reputation for diversity and excellence. Indeed, time and again, the University has articulated this "call of service...
...Beethoven symphonies are his most ambitious project yet. The nine -- which cover a technical and emotional range unmatched by the work of any other composer -- are the bedrock of the conductor's art, and rare is the maestro who has not committed the cycle to disk at least once. Gardiner, however, has set out to do something different with these familiar pieces...