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Bacchus4.0

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2. succinct? or incoherent?
Wed Jun 20, 2012, 08:52 AM
Jun 2012

On Tuesday, he published two Reflections, one a two-paragraph entry on the expanding universe, the other a single paragraph marveling at yoga experts and plugging a Cuban television show.

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Those were preceded on Monday by a piece about the cultivation of moringa and mulberry trees to provide food and fiber for Cuba.

He praised former East German leader Erich Honecker in one column and dissed former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in another, which some viewed as a warning that economic reforms promulgated by his younger brother, President Raul Castro, should not stray too far from communist ideals.

RESISTANCE TO CHANGE

Honecker was famous for his resistance to changing the communist system even as the Cold War was ending, while Deng initiated reforms that led to “market socialism in China.

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