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...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's discussion on how best to democratize Cuba. It's also a bid to reconnect the city--plagued by voter fraud and rampant official corruption--to mainstream U.S. civic values, as well...
...elevated to head of the FSB, the Yeltsin-era successor to the KGB. On the day he walked into the headquarters on Dzerzinsky Square, he said, "I'm home at last." But Moscow's top boys regarded the mere lieutenant colonel with disdain, says a former agent: "We considered Putin a little bit too short in stature." He went to work replacing top echelons with St. Petersburg friends and launching an unpopular campaign to cut jobs. Meantime, citizens were troubled by the way Putin's FSB continued to persecute environmental activists and initiated official monitoring of the Internet...
Which is apparently the last thing romance readers want to confront in their spare time. The rift between those who dote on and those who disdain romance novels really centers on the question of fantasy and its proper place in adult imagination. Here again sexism may play a part. Patriarchs have traditionally fretted about their womenfolk's being ruined by a book. Flaubert's Madame Bovary graphically portrayed the ruin that ensues when a young female's head is filled with romantic fancies. Can it really be good, modern critics wonder, for women to be whiling away so many hours...
...disturbed not by Lewis' rejection of this particular petition but by his disdain for the idea that petitions and other written or electronic manifestations of student opinion might have a meaningful impact on University policy. Particularly worrying is Lewis' claim that "petitions are never a good way to deal with issues that have anything to do with limiting choices or expanding requirements--as individuals we would always vote to give ourselves more choices and fewer requirements." Though he has suggested that 877 students coming to his office hours would be a more appropriate way for him to hear student opinion...
Stephen H. Biel, director of undergraduate studies for the concentration, says that when tutors are hired, they are made aware that advising is a major part of their job. Those who disdain one-to-one interaction with students are generally discouraged from applying, he says...