<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">From: Bradford DeLong <delong@econ.Berkeley.EDU><BR>
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Seems to me that nobody is saying that Nathan and Leo are wrong about <BR>
Castro's latest despicable actions.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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CB: Oh, then I'll say it. Nathan and Leo are wrong about Cuba's latest actions, which are not despicable.<BR>
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All people are saying is that it <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">isn't politic to mention them.<BR>
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Be very, very careful: the world is full of people who are trying to <BR>
communicate the truth as they see it. If you're not even trying to <BR>
communicate the truth as you see it--if you're shading what you <BR>
communicate in the interests of being politic--you go straight to the <BR>
bottom of lots of people's to-be-read piles...</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">CB: OK. I'll keep that in mind. You're calling for frankness.<BR>
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