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...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 that even most Cuban Americans in Miami favor and 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...
Many moderate Tories fear that Thatcher, having won such an impressive mandate, may now discard the caution she often displayed in her first term and let her instincts run their course. As the independent Observer...
...very big majority, Mrs. Thatcher could get support for the kind of shifts which are close to her private instincts. Changes in penal policy, immigration policy, policy toward the welfare state, as well as the more extreme antiunion plans, are among the sensitive areas where we frankly would fear for the country." Now, with a Cabinet even more attuned to her views than the one she began with four years ago, Thatcher may have lost a helpful restraining arm. As a former Cabinet member put it: "During her first term, she allowed her head to rule her heart...
...Fear of herpes obviously prods the trend along but explains the new caution only in part. In 1980, when herpes was just beginning to impinge on the nation's consciousness, a Cosmopolitan survey found that "so many readers wrote negatively about the sexual revolution, expressing longings for vanished intimacy and the now elusive joys of romance and commitment, that we began to sense that there might be a sexual counterrevolution under way in America." Cosmopolitan Editor Helen Gurley Brown, never one to miss a sexual trend, says, "Sex with commitment is absolutely delicious. Sex with your date for the evening...
...When cameras cover massive police operations during municipal campaigning, I indeed think it's a manner of influencing opinion, [and] of wanting to create fear," Royal told France Inter radio following the sweeps. If so, it wasn't the first time police and media activities in France's troubled housing projects were apparently used for political communication. In the autumn of, 2006, for example, units of over 100 riot cops staged raids in two troubled suburbs west of Paris with scores of journalists in tow - in both cases making few arrests, with no charges ultimately filed. At the time, Sarkozy...