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...Cuban Foundation for Human Rights and the Brotherhood for the Independent Blind People of Cuba. He is also the director of the Ignacio Agramonte Independent Library. He earned his law degree (remarkably) while completely blind, but has been prohibited from practicing ever since the regime learned of his oppositionist activities. On March 4, 2002, he organized a peaceful protest outside the Ciego de Avila city hospital to express solidarity with an independent journalist, Jesús Alvarez Castillo, who had been brutally beaten by Cuban State Security. Along with his fellow demonstrators, he too was soon attacked by State Security...
...What seems clear is that Mahathir's resignation is no publicity gambit to shore up support. Even his detractors acknowledge that. "It's definitely not a put-on job or a political gimmick," says oppositionist Lim Kit Siang. (Though Mahathir had multiple-bypass surgery a decade ago, his health is robust for a 76-year-old.) But neither, it seems, does he wish to go because he feels he has accomplished enough and that it's time for younger leaders to take over?as Lee Kuan Yew believed. Mahathir modernized the economy, enabled Malaysia to gain international respect, and gave...
...writes, 'but in many ways a typical one.' In light of all this, asked why he chooses to remain a Catholic, Wills answers with quiet dignity, 'because of the creed'...Deserves - and will almost certainly find - a wide readership while garnering for Wills both praise as a principled oppositionist and condemnation as a heretic...
...uprisings that spread north to overtake the capital of Tirana last week were outbursts of lawlessness more than any kind of movement, since the insurrection has no command. President Sali Berisha clung to office, but he could hardly cling to power. At one point Skender Gjinushi, an oppositionist who had just met with the President, remarked, "Berisha accepted that he has no national control. He has no army, no police...
There is, however, an important difference. Uranus is based on a novel by Marcel Ayme, not quite a Nazi apologist but by no means an oppositionist either. He wrote his book as a protest against the communist-led witch hunt for collaborators that followed the war. The film makes the case against the totalitarian intolerance of empowered Stalinism -- in French practice it often amounted to a settling of personal scores -- with persuasive force...