Word: pragmatist
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While Fidel, 67, remains Cuba's ideologue of yesteryear, Raul, 63, has emerged as today's pragmatist. After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 cost Havana its main trading partner, Fidel has only grudgingly opened the door to dollar-toting tourists and foreign investors, begun shrinking the army and bureaucracy, and allowed Cubans a taste of private enterprise. But monthly rations barely provide enough food for two weeks. The Cuban army, in touch with grass-roots sentiment through its conscripts and ties with local militias, started telling Raul of widespread grumbling among the hungry populace...
...white, elected its first black (and first woman) mayor, Sharon Sayles Belton. In Seattle, 75% white, Norman Rice bore the double burden of incumbency and race but nonetheless swept to re-election by a 2-to-1 vote; he has convinced many residents that he is a problem-solving pragmatist whose race is irrelevant. Mayor Michael White, a self-described "pragmatic idealist," won a second term in Cleveland. Detroit's overwhelmingly black electorate chose Archer despite McPhail's charges that he is too friendly to white suburbanites...
...bicker, parents and educators are seeking some common ground about what works and what doesn't. It is becoming possible to discuss the need for responsibility and commitment without being cast as a religious fanatic and to accept the need for safe-sex instruction without being considered an amoral pragmatist...
...tears did not last. Ashe, the pragmatist, wiped them away and set out to teach the ignorant lessons about ourselves. He set up an AIDS foundation. He became active in AIDS research at Harvard and at his alma mater, the University of California, Los Angeles. He spoke to scores of gatherings on the nature of his disease, on race relations, on the lessons of life lived in the shadow of mortality. Along the way, he hugged his wife Jeanne and daughter Camera. The hugs and dignified discourse ended prematurely last week as Ashe, 49, succumbed to the disease...
...Brown hasn't always been a populist. Ever obedient to his creed of flexibility, he has at times defined himself as heir to his father's political throne, as dreamer, environmentalist, rock 'n' roller, pragmatist and technocrat...