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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WEEKS, FIDEL CASTRO'S AIDES had been urging him to relax. Engaged in a one-year campaign to improve relations with various nations around the world, including the U.S., Cuba's President, now 69 years old, had been working too hard and traveling too much. So on Saturday, Feb. 24, he claims, he decided to take the day off. He retired to one of his Havana-area homes and began paging through My Truth, a book that tells how Mikhail Gorbachev, in opening the door to reform, failed to control dissent and wound up losing power. These days, Castro will...
Recently, however, the Clinton administration has been affecting rapproachment with Cuba through various diplomatic channels. The cold-blooded, premeditated murder of four Cuban-American exiles flying over international waters, less than one year after the sinking of the 13th of July tugboat--which killed 41 men, women and children--should provide a clear imperative to President Clinton to deal more firmly with Castro...
...they'd send messages to their 6,000 closest friends at once, the system would surely collapse. The framing of this nonevent as an "outrage" is meant to deter others from exercising similar capabilities. The threats of Ad Board action, the juvenile graffiti, the pontifications of administrators at the various Harvard computer committees are all out of proportion to the actual offense. They're putting on a show to ward off potential violators...
...Various factors are involved in the formation of the invisible curriculum. They include not only the selection of methods for coping with the university and with peer expectations, but also the relationship, often contradictory, between the expressed values of the university and of the students...
Here crystallization means not so much synthesis and formation as a mode of representation in which objects are viewed as though through a crystal. His images, especially in "Bird Cloud" (1926), appear refracted. Rather than showing various perspectives at once as the Cubists attempted to do, Feininger merely wanted to accentuate and flatten light planes, exaggerating them like a caricaturist would and rendering each with a different solid block of color before reassembling the pieces...