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...mayor recalled an incident early in her political career, when she received a letter “against gay marriage” from “the black clergy”—a group she described as “conspicuously absent” from other debates...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mayors Talk Homophobia Among Black Community | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...Robert G. Marshall of the Virginia House of Delegates. “He should’ve resigned a long time ago.” Marshall spearheaded the effort among members of the House of Delegates to strip Nichol of the state-funded portion of his salary. In his letter of resignation, Nichol explicitly addressed the controversies of his tenure, including his removal in October 2006 of a Christian cross from the college’s Wren Chapel, which hosts secular events as well as Christian services. “The decision was likely required by any effective notion...

Author: By Bita M. Assad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: William and Mary Ousts President | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

...desire was always to fulfill my responsibility until my last breath." With that, Fidel Castro suggested that he had wanted to hang on to power until the very end. But the central message of the letter published early Tuesday morning on the website of Granma, Cuba's official newspaper, was that poor health was forcing him formally to relinquish power. "To my close compatriots ... I say that I will not aspire to nor accept - I repeat, I will not aspire to nor accept - the office of President of the Council of State or Commander in Chief," he wrote. His resignation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Castro's Exit Change Cuba? | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

...ruled Cuba and roiled the U.S. since taking power in 1959, has not been seen in public for a year and a half - even failing to appear at the podium last July 26 for the anniversary of the launching of his communist revolution. In December he released a letter saying he didn't want to "cling to power," which analysts like Latell called his de facto resignation. In his statement today, released in the wee hours of the morning to the government mouthpiece, Granma, Fidel acknowledged his deteriorating health and announced that while his "desire was always to complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Raul Castro Era Begins | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

...question now is whether that letter means carte blanche for Raul, Fidel's longtime Defense Minister, to accelerate at least the economic if not the political reforms he's been hinting at in a series of speeches and minor policy adjustments over the last 18 months. As long as Fidel "is breathing and aware," says Latell, "Raul is still going to be somewhat constrained in what he can do." At the same time, he adds, Fidel's full-blown retirement "really does free Raul to do a lot more than he could in the provisional role. Now I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Raul Castro Era Begins | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

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