The New Yorker on the end of The Beard


	The New Yorker on the end of The Beard

maleghast

2-27-2008 8:19 AM

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As an era comes to an end in Cuba, what will America do (if anything) about the changes that are happening 90 miles off her coast...

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<SPAN>by </SPAN><A href="http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=authorName:%22Alma Guillermoprieto%22">Alma Guillermoprieto</A>
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<P class="descender">And that it should end so ingloriously! No fighting to the last man at the battlements, no martyr’s surrender to an assassin’s bullet, only a creaking, shuffling exit through the ward’s doors, hospital gown flapping. We are less than a year away from the half-century marker of a most astonishing marathon, but even this artist of endurance must bow to fate and acknowledge that it’s time to go. <I>Vámonos, Fidel:</I> no one is standing in the way.</P></DIV></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/247C5742-AD8B-4F92-800E-BC498AF184BA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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