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...Cubans apparently decided they now had more to gain by coming to terms with Washington. But in accepting this narrowly focused solution, Castro seems to have settled for very little. Why would he agree to something that does not even mention the hated embargo? Did he get some unspoken understanding on that score? Apparently not, but he did win some points. He took a step toward better relations with the U.S. He received an immigration package that gives him some say about who can leave his island and, at the same time, removes much of the incentive for Cubans...
There are many competent people, so women who want to advance in professional life should also acquire leadership skills and "learn the rules" of any unspoken "game" which is part of the field in which they work, Marshall said...
...this one man, whom he devours. The result is misery for everyone -- although no one is quite as miserable as the painter's roommate, a transsexual dying of AIDS. Mark Mocahbee has staged a supple, swift-paced and solidly acted production, minimalist save for screens that display the characters' unspoken thoughts. And the vice squad? They came, they saw and this time they decided the show...
Being a minority myself, I never realized the extent of unspoken antagonism that must have been directed at me since I arrived in September...
...unspoken motives of proponents of the President's health-care plan are power-lust, arrogance and resentment of doctors. (Each of these has a more emollient name, but we'll get farther if we keep the bark on.) The lust for power, or at very least the conviction that increased state power is the solution to all ills, simply has to be present in any proposal to boost regulation over one-seventh of the nation's economy. Two years after the collapse of communism, and at a time when even the mild-mannered Eurosocialists are considering a four-day workweek...