Word: fidels
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CATHY BOOTH THOMAS, our Dallas bureau chief, has chased after the Pope, Fidel Castro, Hollywood celebs and Enron. Last week she was after the hottest consumer-electronics company in the world...
...Fidel Castro’s regime has since 1959 brought dignity and equality to the lives of millions of Cubans, has assured them of a decent standard of living and has given meaning to the lives of millions of others by engaging them in the effort to build a new society based on love and self-sacrifice rather than the self-indulgence that characterized Cuban society before 1959 and American society today. He has carried out this social revolution with little tolerance for dissent, but at the same time with a regard for human life and mercy that...
...crude polemic by Ross G. Douthat ’02 depicting Fidel Castro as equivalent to Adolf Hitler and Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor Mario Coyula as the equal of Albert Speer (Column, “Albert Speer at Harvard,” March 4) deserves condemnation on at least three grounds...
...Design, where he will teach architecture and urban planning. He is also a member of Cuba’s Communist Party. Indeed, he is a high-ranking government official, the head of the island nation’s urban planning commission. And he is no johnny-come-lately to Fidel Castro’s government—Coyula-Cowley helped organize the 1959 rebellion that swept the bearded dictator into power, and has held numerous government appointments over the decades since. Among other things, he is a senior member of Cuba’s National Union of Artists and Writers...
...just months after seizing power in Cuba, Fidel Castro traveled to Cambridge to speak at the Harvard Law School. More than 40 years later, an official for Castro’s regime recently began a semester-long stint as a visiting professor at another Harvard graduate school...