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4 | Havana Cuban Shuffle In what analysts called the nation's biggest shake-up in decades, President Raúl Castro dismissed several top officials with ties to his ailing brother. The move, which some say indicates Castro is placing his imprimatur on the Cuban government, comes after his first year in...
“Life in Vilnius is a giant poker game, played by madmen.†“Vilnius Poker,†a novel by late Lithuanian author Ricardas Gavelis, and recently translated into English by Elizabeth Novickas, sets up a metaphorical card game to puzzle even...
At the official celebration in Havana on January 1, Raúl Castro warned that, “outside forces cannot destroy the Cuban Revolution.†In a way, he is right: Aggressive but ineffective moves by the U.S. and its allies in the last 50 years, including the...
Developing Civil Society Many of the region's people-power revolutions occurred because of the courage of independent activists leading the downtrodden masses. The intervening years, however, have bred disenchantment within Asia's civil society. One of the architects of Thailand's PAD is Chamlong Srimuang, a Buddhist ascetic who...
It would be fitting for a man who has made a career of campaigning against career politicians to make a short stay of it in the highest office in the state. But Quinn will still have to work hard to live up to his own code of conduct. As Blagojevich...