Word: cubanism
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...busier valentine’s days in recent history,” said general manager Michael J. Mooney. “Even to the last moment, people were calling all morning long for reservations.” Christy Leveroni, dining room manager at Chez Henri, a French-Cuban restaurant close to the Quad, recalled business was the same as the last time Valentine’s fell on a Saturday, back in 2004. Though she recounted horror stories from other struggling eateries, Leveroni said Chez Henri has been “cushioned,” for the most part...
Soledad M. O’Brien ’88 is the host of the CNN Special Investigations Unit and anchored the July, 2008 CNN special, “Black in America.” Of Afro-Cuban descent, O’Brien is a member of both the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Prior to her keynote address at the Black & Crimson Banquet, O’Brien spoke with The Crimson by phone about her career as a journalist and her undergraduate years at Harvard. The Harvard Crimson: How does the election...
...United States has not budged on the Cuban embargo for several complex reasons. First, many Cuban refugees in the United States directly oppose any open gestures of amity toward their former oppressors. Second, many United States companies who possessed property in Cuba before the government seized and nationalized it during the early ’60s still stand strong in lobbying against an end to the embargo. While both of these admittedly powerful constituencies have legitimate grievances against the brutal Communist regime, the Cuban government has not and will not become more accommodating to their interests on a mere whim...
...made restoring a close strategic relationship with Cuba a priority in Moscow. This alone should be more than enough evidence that the embargo is counterproductive. In 1962, the world watched with bated breath as Kennedy and Khrushchev faced off in the Caribbean, and many historians today recognize that the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest that the world had ever come to nuclear holocaust...
...policy interests. Dropping the embargo will allow us to reincorporate Cuba into the inter-American community, reopen a dialogue with a government not more than 90 miles from United States coastline, and allow an influx of American culture and influence that is expected to bring social change to the Cuban people. As such, it would behoove the Obama administration to place the normalization of relations with Cuba high on its list of foreign-policy goals...