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...stake for CANF is nothing less than its role as Miami's Tammany Hall--and as arbiter of Washington's Cuba policy. Its authoritarian control has weakened in recent years, as has public support for the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba. Last fall, CANF leaders were desperate to counter Castro's planned visit to the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle, and were saved when Elian washed up as their poster boy. Millionaire chairman Jorge Mas denies the lobby is using Elian: "Our mission is to ensure that this boy gets his due process of law." But he adds...
Carefree shoppers have no greater nemesis than Alan Greenspan. The relentless Federal Reserve chairman has been tweaking our collective guilt for months now, urging us not to stake our fortunes on the mercurial stock market and reminding us that our security depends on prudent savings plans. And now Greenspan will have additional ammunition for his attack on spendthrifts: According to new government reports, U.S. consumer spending outpaced personal income in February, and savings dipped to a record...
...exile activist community that has organized the campaign to keep Elian in the U.S. is unlikely to give the last word to lawyers or legislators. "At stake for the Cuban-American National Foundation is nothing less than its role as Miami's Tammany Hall - and as arbiter of Washington's Cuba policy," says Padgett. "Its authoritarian control has weakened in recent years, as has public support for the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba." And even as the anti-Castro exiles use the Elian case as a make-or-break campaign to revive their fortunes, it's working wonders...
...example, by burning your religious enemies at the stake, or standing by silently as millions of Jews go to the ovens) may be human. To forgive such things is clearly the business of the victims or, in their likely absence, of the divine. To forget such "errors"--after years, after centuries--is nature's usual...
...church wrongs against women and homosexuals. An organization of pagans and Wiccans said the Pope should have included them in the apology: "Women accused of being 'Witches,' for instance--the herbalists and wisewomen of still Pagan villages throughout Europe--were hunted out, hideously tortured, and burned at the stake in uncountable numbers...