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...Senator Mel Martinez to the bill that would end the travel ban. But even they know momentum is building inside the Beltway, as prominent Senators like Indiana's Richard Lugar now argue that the Cuban embargo has been a failure. Obama didn't need the once indispensable Cuban-American vote to win Florida's critical electoral votes in last year's presidential race, and the Cuban-American Foundation - a once hard-line exile group in Miami - issued a white paper last week calling for engagement over isolation in Cuba policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Obama Open Up All U.S. Travel to Cuba? | 4/14/2009 | See Source »

...critical of the current planning structure than Mattison, said that “you have to question where exactly the power lies” in the BRA’s development process, which he criticized as “incredibly unfair” because the community is unable to vote on the BRA’s decisions. While neighborhood groups such as Mattison’s attempt to “work within the system and the BRA process, trying to get the best community benefits,” Carman said, his group “is more interested...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Allston Community Deals with Development | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

...critical of the current planning structure than Mattison, said that “you have to question where exactly the power lies” in the BRA’s development process, which he criticized as “incredibly unfair” because the community is unable to vote on the BRA’s decisions...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Allston Residents Work To Find Voice as University Expansion Crawls Forward | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

...Boston community,” said HRA President Rares N. Pamfil ’10. “The organization usually hosts events on campus, and this is something beyond that.” The former soviet state’s Communist Party reportedly won 49 percent of votes on Sunday, April 5, far more than either the Liberal Party or the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 13 percent and 12 percent, respectively. International observers cautiously called the elections free and fair, but following the post-election violence President Vladimir Voronin, who is a member of the governing Communist Party...

Author: By Justin W. White, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Protest in Square | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

...it’s also true that my former congressman, Jim Leach, was one of only six Republicans in the House to vote against authorizing the war in Iraq and the only one to vote against Bush’s 2003 tax cut; despite these moderate views, he lost my district to a Democrat in 2006. That Democrat, Dave Loebsack, now sits in the Congressional Progressive Caucus alongside Barney Frank ’ 62 and Bernie Sanders. Iowa also gave Barack Obama his first victory of the primary cycle, silencing those who insisted that an African-American candidate couldn?...

Author: By Marianne F. Kaletzky | Title: Matters of the Heart(land) | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

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