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...hard-line Cuban-American National Foundation, Miami's powerful political machine--and son of the foundation's fiery former leader, Jorge Mas Canosa, who died in 1997--attributes the moderate trend to "Middle-American ignorance about Cuban repression." But De Leon, who has broken with the exile taboo and visits Cuba, insists that the practical way to change the island is to look beyond Castro and start building democratic and capitalist bridges there in preparation for his demise. Exile leaders like Ramon Saul Sanchez, who once headed a clandestine paramilitary group that trained for a possible invasion of Cuba...
...role 20. Sign of summer 21. American Beauty Oscar winner 24. Phi Beta Kappa concern: Abbr. 26. Reform Party chairman Choate 27. Actuary's concern 28. It may be floated 29. NBC has pulled the plug on __, the Devil, and Bob 30. A newspaper here ended a 20-year taboo by printing the U.S. flag 31. Torah holder 32. Reagan was its pres. 33. Nixon, for two yrs. 34. Scientists have found a gene that regulates this 36. Azores' loc. 38. Source of high-protein flour 39. Split apart 42. Reply to the Little Red Hen 44. Bruce Babbitt wants...
...debacle and the ill-fated motion to remove its vice president, the Undergraduate Council seems to have abandoned democracy in favor of Orwellian social conformity. Economics concentrators beware: the words "rational choice theory" will have to be said in a hushed whisper and talk of self-interest will become taboo. And while there are no five-year plans yet, there is a five-day one: Spirit Week...
...Cultural continuity" is supposed to be a condition of federal recognition for American Indian tribes, but are the tribes in Southeastern Connecticut stretching it? As Trump found out, it can be a taboo topic. But even among American Indians, there's disagreement on how legit some of the newly recognized tribes are. At the time of Trump's lawsuit, one lobbyist for Western Indian tribes complained to The New York Times that tribes pursuing recognition in order to build casinos were making a mockery of nations that had legitimately clung to their identities despite centuries of adversity: "The whole question...
Their efforts are being recognized by left-of-center politicians who realize that government coffers are not bottomless and tax-and-spend policies are taboo. Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair has declared that his government embraces the idea of social entrepreneurs, describing them as "people who bring to social problems the same enterprise and imagination business entrepreneurs bring to wealth creation...