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...does the resignation mean real change? After falling seriously ill with gastrointestinal disease nearly 19 months ago, Fidel, 81, temporarily handed power to his 76-year-old brother Raúl, who is now widely expected to be named President of the Council of State when the National Assembly votes on February 24. With his close ties to the Cuban military, Raúl has thus far proved a stable ruler; little detectable reform has occurred under his watch. That consistency owes at least a partial debt to the control that Fidel has continued to exercise, even from his sickbed...
...Raúl has proposed changes, but nothing's been done. Fidel is always there, monitoring him, tutoring him," says Luís Manuel García, editor of Encuentros, a Madrid-based magazine focused on Cuban affairs. "He's acted as a counterweight to his brother." Malamud expects that even now, that role will not change. "Fidel will continue to be the guardian of orthodoxy. He'll continue to block any change...
...Although experts like García see Raúl as more naturally open, a lot will hang, then, on how long Fidel survives. "On his own, I think he would want to make some timid economic reforms, some timid steps toward openness," says García. "Raúl has a greater awareness that there's paralysis in Cuban society today, a dangerous sense of immobility...
...rucher école (hive school) next to an apiary established in the Luxembourg Gardens in 1856 that houses about a million bees. Beekeeping in Paris is, well, a hive of activity, with colonies living on private balconies, at an inner-city nunnery and, famously, atop both the Opéra Bastille and the Palais Garnier, the latter still tended by Jean Paucton, 73. Paucton's bees forage in the Tuileries Gardens, the chestnut trees of the Champs-Élysées and the linden trees of the Palais Royal. The honey they produce sells at a premium price at Fauchon...
Miel récolte sur les toits de l'Opéra de Paris (honey harvested on the rooftops of the Paris Opera): A limited supply is available at Fauchon's Place de la Madeleine store...