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Castro has failed in every objective he has set for himself and the country he governs. You said he is smart and charismatic. However, it is difficult to correlate those things with his denial to 11 million people of the most basic human rights. The only explanation for Castro's...
When he met for 35 minutes with Castro at the Vatican late in 1996, the Pope did not wag his finger or lecture the revolutionary Comandante. Instead, he listened. He let the eternally voluble Fidel talk. He treated him with the respect Castro craves. And he disarmed Fidel. Not only...
Grove believes "only the paranoid survive." My dictionary defines paranoia as a chronic mental disorder characterized by delusions of persecution and of one's own greatness. Poor Grove. He would have us believe that our competitive free-enterprise system works only if one is emotionally sick. ROBERT ROSS Hendersonville, N.C...
Once labeled a potential "kiss of death" by novelist Saul Bellow, after he won the prize in 1976, the Nobel can be a bittersweet distinction. For William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, the prize was a swan song, a tribute to past masterpieces whose greatness their subsequent work did not approach...
"Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first, the chicken or the...