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...Jimmy Carter's Havana visit represents the accelerated privatization" of U.S. Cuba policy, prompted by a belief that Washington's official stance remains paralyzed by Florida electoral calculations. Those calculations mean that, whatever the outcome of Carter's visit, President Bush is expected to announce a tightening up of the four-decade-old U.S. embargo next Monday. There's scant support for continued sanctions in the U.S. foreign policy, defense, intelligence or business establishment, much less among Washington's allies in Latin America - or even among Cuba's small dissident community. But no matter how much it's questioned...
...Castro has raised the question of his own succession in public for more than a year now, and his invitation to Carter may be a sign that he's preparing the ground for a rapprochement between his successors and the old enemy. Castro's own idea of his succession involves handing over the commander-in-chief job to his brother Raul, who currently heads up the military. But Fidel is not expecting the charisma-challenged Raul to be the same sort of personality-cult leader as himself, and has already transferred much of the day-to-day running of government...
...based activists, that tends to sway U.S. policy. In a move widely characterized as a nod to the exile leadership, a Bush administration official last week suggested that Cuba may be developing biological weapons and exporting the technology to do so to some of Washington's least-loved regimes. Carter punctured that particular balloon by pointing out that the U.S. intelligence officials who'd provided "intense" briefings before his trip had assured him, even when he specifically asked, that there was no evidence of Cuba sharing information that could be used by terrorists. Even Secretary of State Colin Powell found...
There was Mager, batting 6-for-10 and stealing two bases. There was the infield of Mager, Shakir, third baseman Nick Carter and first baseman Josh San Salvador, an all-senior unit that had the best fielding percentage in the Ivy League, erasing the few mistakes the Crimson’s starters made...
...week before that, a parade of seniors homered against Brown to pull off an eight-run comeback that breathed life into their season. San Salvador. Carter, who had been struggling but kept swinging when the lead seemed insurmountable. Lopez, who hit the first home run of his career. And all the while, Mike Dryden quietly helped solidify a bullpen that became lethally efficient down the stretch...