Word: fideles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Huntington's remarks? My Lai wasn't the result of unschooled insensitivity. It came from that dark side of man's nature which most assuredly spans the boundaries of class and education. Theodore J. Kaczynski was a Harvard man, wasn't he? And I recall that Fidel Castro, Ted Bundy, and Dr. Josef Mengele were "educated" men. Schooling can't wipe away bloodlust and evil from the human spirit--it paints them nicer colors, making them all the more horrible indeed...
...hard, turn really red and run a hand over his balding head, his lifelong gesture of consternation. But even then, when I was his "mother," he still managed in some convoluted way to hold on to one thing: he was proud of his daughter at TIME, who had interviewed Fidel Castro and traveled with the Pope...
Cuba vs. America: Fidel Castro filed a $181 billion suit charging the U.S. with "bloody acts" against Cuba, including CIA attempts to poison his milk shakes...
...impressive young man--intelligent, articulate, judicious, persuasive, well defined but never full of himself, exceptionally attractive. He invented George as the Vanity Fair formula applied to politics, and he steered the magazine in a resolutely nonpartisan course. He loved the editorial work, loved conducting interviews with everyone from Fidel Castro to George Wallace, loved the variety and eccentricity of American politics. He was not a front man but patrolled every aspect of the job. His staff admired and adored him. But one felt it was a transitional stage...
...saying in Wednesday?s New York Times. "This is a policy that has been held hostage to interest groups for way too long." "What needs to be done" is the easing of the 37-year U.S. embargo of Cuba, which has patently failed in its prime objective of overthrowing Fidel Castro and has long since been abandoned by all of Washington?s allies. But those "special interest groups" ?- anti-Castro Cuban exiles with significant electoral power in the swing states of Florida and New Jersey ?- will have Al Gore?s people jumping on the brake wherever possible. "Conventional wisdom...