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...slap on the wrist - as have his Latin American neighbors. But Europe's legions of Castro admirers, from politicians to artists, are increasingly siding with Payá, a phenomenon that could dampen European enthusiasm for travel to Cuba, which is often driven by the island's chic revolutionary cachet. Portugal's Nobel-prizewinning novelist, José Saramago, once a Castro admirer, wrote in a stinging editorial last month that "this is as far as I go" with Cuba's revolution. The E.U. has also postponed negotiation of a badly needed economic aid package for Cuba. At the same time...
...MANY LOVES OF DOBIE GILLIS Beatnik Bob Denver, pre-Gilligan, gave the teen sitcom a cool cachet that the square movie lacked...
...colonics designed to clean the body inside and out. As a cleansing client, this means I spend my days in Thailand ingesting nothing but murky "shakes" of volcanic clay, psyllium husk and watermelon juice?all the while undergoing daily coffee colonics. In Nepal or Mongolia?places with little culinary cachet?fasting might make sense. But in the kingdom of miang khum and larb gai, skipping a dinner of piquant red-curry snapper in favor of clay is just cruel...
...Washington fails to revamp its image in Asia, it may push countries into the embrace of the rising great power: China. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is taking his country down that road, even though Thailand is traditionally one of Washington's staunchest military allies. China has the cachet of being the region's new economic engine. And increasingly, Asia's industrializing nations see their future as being intertwined with a Middle Kingdom that will be buying more TVs and DVD players than the U.S. within a decade. America has a lot of old, albeit complicated, friendships in Asia...
...Harvard has this enormous cachet in Taiwan,” said Steve Goldstein, co-director of the Taiwan Studies Workshop at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. “You never know what its influence is, but it carries enormous weight...