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...Castro Radio Mambi. Perez, 74, still mobilizes more of Florida's half a million Cuban votes than any other exile leader. Those votes went to Bush I and later to Bush II, whose controversial, narrow victory owed no small debt to Don Armando. The Bushes repay him with their staunch support of the embargo, even though polls show that almost 40% of Cuban Americans now favor lifting...
...staunch Democrat, Galbraith praised former President Ronald Reagan for enjoying the presidency far more than actual involvement in policymaking, and said that he must be one of the few Democrats in America yearning for the days of the Reagan administration “over our current situation...
...board thought the criticism of Summers was “unfair” and wanted to clarify their staunch support of Summers to the Harvard community, Grech said...
...most men, this might not seem like the best way of achieving the sort of gender-balanced—or even guy-friendly—perspective that characterizes Krinsky’s work (after all, she is a staunch advocate of “swallow” ). To guarantee parity, Krinsky assures me that she solicits extensive input from guy friends as well. Krinsky’s ability to relate to the male perspective makes her sexual insights accessible to men and women alike...
...words of President Vicente Fox: "As an artist she gave everything to Mexico." DIED. YU CHI-CHUNG, 92, mainland-born founding publisher of Taiwan's China Times who followed Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists to the island,but later stepped afoul of the KMT party line and became a staunch advocate of reunification with China; in Taipei. DIED. MALCOLM KALP, 63, former American diplomat to Iran and one of 52 hostages held by Islamic militants for 444 days beginning in 1979, after his car was hit by a drunk driver; in Stoughton, Massachusetts. The U.S. Embassy's commercial officer...