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...Comandante just yet. "Castro is charismatic, even if his popularity has eroded some," says Smith. "It could be argued that he would win an open election even today." The "maximum leader" maintains his high favor by constantly mixing with ordinary folks, thereby cultivating a keen sense of popular sentiment. Observes a senior Cuban official: "He is not like Honecker and Ceausescu, who lost touch with their people." And unlike the communist regimes imposed on Eastern Europe after World War II, Castro's revolution was a homegrown affair that quickly attracted the support of most Cubans...
Prop 2 1/2 was approved during a nationwide tide of anti-tax sentiment, at a time when high property taxes were soaring even higher. In that political climate, many local governments were pegged as wasteful bureaucracies which overspent the revenue they collected...
Most of the concerns about German unity have traditionally come from Moscow, but anti-German sentiment has by no means disappeared in Western Europe, despite nearly four decades of close cooperation inside the European Community. A Dutch official, who asked not to be identified, said last week, "Except for the Germans, no one in Europe wants reunification." British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has given broad hints of her feelings. At a dinner at 10 Downing Street in honor of Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki last week, she said the developments in Europe "may stir deeply felt anxieties." Poland and Britain...
...confederate flag symbolizes a racist sentiment in the same way that a Nazi swastika does. As such, it constitutes a form of hate speech which must not be tolerated by the College any more than shouted epithets or racially derogatory remarks would be tolerated...
Such action would be consistent with the sentiment of Harvard Faculty members, who recently affirmed the University's commitment to the First Amendment. Displaying a flag is symbolic speech that should not be forcibly silenced. For the University to squash all expression deemed repugnant by certain groups would be to admit that might makes right--the most repugnant conclusion...