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...always to fulfill my responsibility until my last breath." With that, Fidel Castro suggested that he had wanted to hang on to power until the very end. But the central message of the letter published early Tuesday morning on the website of Granma, Cuba's official newspaper, was that poor health was forcing him formally to relinquish power. "To my close compatriots ... I say that I will not aspire to nor accept - I repeat, I will not aspire to nor accept - the office of President of the Council of State or Commander in Chief," he wrote. His resignation, coming just...
...Statesman illustrated a special issue on the subject with a photomontage of Thatcher as Queen Victoria.) As Peregrine Worsthorne, associate editor of the conservative Sunday Telegraph, puts it, Thatcher "is as ignorantly contemptuous of the so-called values of the idle rich as of the so-called idle poor...
...Columbia shooting free throws. Kevin Bulger misses the first, makes the second. Harvard still in it. The Crimson bring it down the court, but can't find a good shot. Way too much time wasted, Housman calls for the ball and puts up a prayer of a shot. Poor half court offense by Harvard. Columbia 60, Harvard...
...Some of the clothing dumped on Latin America is in such poor taste that it's hard to imagine how it ever got made in the first place. Like the girl's underwear in a storefront window inscribed with the creepy message, "I love my uncle...
...Home to some 40 million mostly poor people, Central America is an enormous market for inexpensive clothing. Nicaraguan entrepreneurs often travel to Miami to buy used clothing in bulk, and ship it back home to sell for a hefty profit. According to an investigation by Nicaraguan economist Alejandro Arauz, most such apparel is imported into Nicaragua as "donations" to skirt commercial taxes, then resold for a 200 percent profit. To further cut costs, the used clothing purchased in the U.S. is bottom-of-the-barrel stuff, the garments picked over and left behind at Goodwill and then sold...