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...Cuabanso as the next guy, but to see the crowds rioting, pushing cops around, starting fires and obstructing justice did not make me proud in the least of being a Cuban-American," Dominguez wrote. " The last thing our people need is to be seen on TV in a rambling mob...
Furthermore, it's disgraceful that The Crimson characterizes the resistance of Cuban-Americans to the will of the Justice Department and the INS as "the rule of the mob" and "irresponsible behavior." The editors dismiss concerns for the boy's future in Cuba as part of a "political agenda" because they don't have the faintest notion what it's like to grow up in a country with no freedom of speech, religion or the press...
House Republican whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) has called the raid a "frightening event." What is truly frightening is that, for five months, the rule of law was replaced by the rule of the mob. It is frightening that such irresponsible behavior would continue with the tacit support of local authorities. And it is frightening that a community could let its political agenda cloud its best judgment by preventing a boy from being reunited with his father...
...self-serving memory and rank speculation, all underscored with periodic outbursts of prose so embarrassingly purple it could shame a grape. Most provocative theory: that Liston's two fights with the young Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali were fixed by the Nation of Islam. Most convincing characterization: the drowning-in-slime, Mob-controlled world of big-time boxing circa 1960. Most vexing question: why anyone would commit a sentence like this one, typical in every way but its brevity: "What remained was epilogue and epitaph, chords like wind of death-song, of threnody." Uh, yeah...
...dream, vast acreage on the center of the front page of the New York Times ("All The News That's Fit to Print," grave chronicler of wars and famines and NASDAQ plunges) is given over to the Boy and the Attorney General and the Dictator and the religio-political mob scene. Turn on the television and on every news channel the mob scene springs to life - famous Hispanic singer passionately orates, cops reinforce barricades with chains, the Boy is seen coming down the sliding board, laughing...