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...right-wing p.c. may be the opposition to Tara J. O'Toole, Clinton's nominee for Assistant Secretary of Energy. O'Toole's nomination has been held up by two Republican Senators because -- and follow this closely, please -- she belongs to a study group that once had the name Marxist Feminist Group. The group, which meets about three times a year, changed its name to Northeast Feminist Scholars years before O'Toole joined it. The Administration wrote the Senate that O'Toole "has never endorsed Marxist theory, nor has she ever had the impression that any other members of N.F.S...
...climax of an election week that had tipped the natural order of things upside down. The arrogant old conservatives of the L.D.P. lost the majority they had used to run the government unchallenged -- and almost unsupervised -- for 38 years. At the same time, the permanent and futile opposition, the Marxist-oriented Social Democrats, lost almost half their seats and slid further toward irrelevance. Both parties suffered their worst electoral showing ever...
With his studied style, Roberto Robaina Gonzalez looks more like a manager of a rock band than a Marxist model. Yet Robaina, at 37, exemplifies the new face of Cuba. Two months ago, Fidel Castro surprised Havana by picking the man he affectionately calls Robertico, a math teacher who speaks only Spanish, as Foreign Minister. U.S. diplomats dismissed him as "dynamic but dumb." Havana's bureaucrats were speechless: in his previous job as head of the Union of Communist Youth, Robaina had wooed the young with discos and salsa music -- and those T shirts. Even Fidel had a public laugh...
Similarly, I'm not arguing for some Marxist nihilism that forces identity into a big monocultural box. Nor am I saying that Harvard was a great place when the students were white guys, the professors were white guys and all the books were written by white guys. I'd take an uneasy diversity to homogeneity...
About 20 protesters from the Spartacus Youth Club, a Marxist group, chanted "Clinton and Reno, you have lied--Waco was murder, not suicide" outside Sanders. But the protesters were largely ignored by the crowd, who seemed in a generally festive mood...