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Chiles' handlers profess confidence, noting that he has just lately run his first TV spots, in part because he refuses PAC money or any individual contribution over $100. Indeed, few play the populist card better than Chiles, as Bush learned during a recent debate. The challenger switched briefly into Spanish and then turned to Chiles: "Governor, what I've just said was the Governor needs to lead. And the government needs to be able to sell...
...people I find far more upsetting are those who profess Catholicism and still disagree with the Church on the issues. Many Americans, like former Times columnist Anna Quindlen, call themselves "Catholic" and then wear their support for abortion like a badge of honor...
...their commercials, all three candidates profess to be either "new" or "real" Democrats, members of a contemporary breed of politicians willing to stray from the fold to get the necessary votes for the Democratic nomination...
Even so, Castro seems thoroughly in control. The ability of many Cubans to describe harrowing privation and in almost the same breath profess loyalty to Fidel -- or at worst a kind of numb resignation -- is startling. Raise, 31, an engineer, pauses along the Almendares River in western Havana to watch the return of several rafts that had tried to make it across the Straits of Florida but were forced by bad weather to turn back. "These people are out of their minds," he says. "This is a difficult period of the revolution, but I wouldn't even think about doing...
Pundits trotted out Shakespeare for references; talk-radio hosts searched for Larger Meanings, about the destruction of black male role models, the special treatment of celebrities by police, the danger women face from the men who profess to love them. But by the end of the week, with the last astounding twists to the case, it seemed that there were no larger meanings -- just a howling, monstrous tragedy...