Word: jakes
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...hard-line roots and use his security forces to crack down on dissent, or he can earn the affection of his beleaguered people by further loosening the economic and political screws--a path that may be easier to take if Washington drops the embargo. "If we don't," says Jake Colvin, director of the Washington-based USA*Engage, an arm of the National Foreign Trade Council, "the U.S. risks alienating another generation of Cubans and pushing the Cuban government further into the arms of countries like Venezuela and China...
...contact, Jake Olkkola, is really awful at getting back to us,” Kopelman says. “How hard can it be to return a message, or return an e-mail? Right now, we have teams that want to play us, but we don’t know what to tell them—we don’t even know if we’ll have the field...
...Washington to consider stepped up contact with Ral--widely regarded as more pragmatic and flexible than Fidel--as a more effective means of jump-starting a democratic transition. "President Bush is right when he says this is a 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...
...been decided, who knows what could’ve happened,” Peterzan said of Schnitter’s match. The final set at No. 3 singles and the doubles point proved to be the definitive moments of the match. —Staff writer Jake I. Fisher can be reached at jifisher@fas.harvard.edu...
...Jake Colvin, director of the Washington-based USA*Engage, which supports dismantling the embargo, insists the resignation "brings a new urgency for President Bush to show that America is open to a different relationship with Cuba. If we do not, the U.S. risks alienating another generation of Cubans and pushing the Cuban government farther into the arms of countries like Venezuela and China...