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Robaina's appointment marks the rise of a new breed in Havana: the young upwardly mobile Marxists, or yummies. They were just babes in arms or school kids when Castro's socialist revolutionaries swept down out of the Sierra Maestra mountains 34 years ago. Now in their 30s and early 40s, educated and ambitious, the yummies hold the key to Cuba's future...
...point, Casey looked into the crowd and commented that most of the people there looked like country club board directors, a breed he says tends to criticize politicians and culture...
...classmates, familiarity does not breed contempt. "The more I've been affiliated with Harvard, the more respect I have for the quality of the Harvard experience...
...Giotto or two. But as an image of unrepentant terrorist power striking back against the Italian state, the bombing of the Uffizi could hardly have been improved upon. Florentine tourism may plummet. No Italian museum or church, however great or venerated, can be considered safe from this new breed of butchers, whose target is not only human lives but the past itself...
...over health care and other issues, a handful of Senators now holds the keys to success or failure for Clinton in his first year in office. This pride of new Senate lions differs substantially from the Lyndon Johnsons and Everett Dirksens of the past. With one exception, the new breed are committee chairmen rather than members of the formal leadership (which was all but reformed out of business a couple of decades ago). In cutting deals, the modern lions rely as much on suasion as brute political force, and when they have to fight dirty, they prefer the stiletto...