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Last Wednesday, between a Cabinet meeting and an address on the future of U.S.-Cuban relations, President George W. Bush had a long-overdue lunch with his old friend and spiritual mentor, evangelist Billy Graham...
...College sponsored several events just for parents, including tours of Widener Library and a welcoming address by Dean of the College David Pilbeam on Friday afternoon. In addition to these College-sponsored events, parents were invited to attend classes ranging from Historical Study B-64, “The Cuban Revolution, 1956-1971: A Self-Debate,” to Math 23a, “Linear Algebra and Real Analysis I.” Matthew P. Zehnder ’11 said he spent most of his weekend showing his parents around campus. “Parents’ Weekend...
...would argue that democracy and human rights are as rare in Cuba as meat and modern appliances. That was duly underscored on Wednesday when President Bush invited the relatives of jailed Cuban dissidents to the State Department for his first policy speech on Cuba in four years. But any expectation of a major policy shift was dissipated after listening to the President. Bush simply gussied up some of the same old bromides - "The socialist paradise is a tropical gulag" - that have marked U.S.-Cuban relations for decades...
...jump-starting a democratic transition. "President Bush is right when he says this is a unique moment in Cuba, but he's missing that moment," says Jake Colvin, director of USA Engage in Washington, which favors moves like lifting the ban on U.S. travel to Cuba - something even most Cuban-Americans in Miami now favor, and which many Cuba watchers suggest the Castros actually fear. Bush insisted that engaging Cuba now would just give "oxygen to a criminal regime." But, argues Colvin, "American citizens have always proven the best ambassadors of freedom and democracy...
Bush may also be alienating the very people he is reaching out to by suggesting Washington will be Cuba's post-Castro arbiter. In the eyes of ordinary Cuban citizens, that is perceived as surrogacy for the Miami Cuban exile community - whose anti-Castro hardliners, with their dreams of resurrecting a pre-Castro Cuba, are as disliked by many Cubans on the island as the Castros themselves...