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Tired of seeing their community portrayed as a martial camp in the Everglades, moderate Cuban Americans in Miami are finally raising their voices above the din of the city's Spanish-language, anticommunist talk radio. Political debates that used to be whispered in Little Havana kitchens are now held in clubs where the rhythms of once forbidden Cuban salsa bands like Los Van Van resound. Members of the new Cuban-American guard despise Castro too--but not so much that they disdain the First Amendment. As a result, they see their ascendancy as more than a chance to democratize Miami...
Hundreds of students cheering new residents of their Houses created a din that could be heard across campus at lunchtime yesterday...
...Tanaka clan!" he exclaims. He proceeds to execute the din mok (deft touch), the patented karate move of his shedoshi...
...sweetness, and cooling it produces a salty or sour taste; chilling the back of the tongue, by contrast, creates a sour or bitter sensation. No one knows if these false taste sensations affect flavor, but experts suspect they are too faint for the brain to discern in the sensory din of a mouthful of well-seasoned food...
...Suddenly, over the din of the still, sad music of the slot machinery, I hear what I think is my name being called over the public address system. "Robert Coolbrith, please dial extension blah-blah-gargle-blah." I find an official-looking man wearing a cerulean blue coat and an earpiece, and ask him for some assistance. He leads me to a house phone. I speak with an operator and discover that I have not been paged. The blue-coated man asks me how things went on the phone, and I must report to him that...