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Fidel Castro is an ingrate. That must be what Sen. Christopher Dodd is thinking now that Cuba's communist tyrant has endorsed a Democratic ticket of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. "The word today is that an apparently unbeatable ticket could be Hillary for president and Obama as her running mate," he wrote in a column Tuesday in Cuba's Communist Party newspaper, Granma. He also had nice things to say about two of his favorite stooges: Jimmy Carter, for trying to normalize relations between the United States and Cuba during his feckless presidency; and Bill Clinton, for his part in...

Connecticut's Sen. Christopher J. Dodd has accomplished the improbable: Despite several months on the campaign trail, he has yet to boost his standing among Democratic presidential candidates into single digits. Nationally, he polls within the margin of error, making it statistically possible that nobody supports his bid. In his latest attempt to distinguish himself, Sen. Dodd last week proposed steps that he said are vital to reduce pollution and limit global warming. He called for increasing fuel-economy standards to 50 mpg over the next 10 years and creating a corporate carbon tax that would make businesses pay a per-ton fee...

Today we celebrate, perhaps more than ever if not in a flashy way, "le 23 de enero", January 23. This was the day in 1958 when we kicked out our last really real dictator. 47 years later, it seems that we are back to square one. ... the Granda affair has brought a new look on things. And foreign interests have changed. Two things must be noted. In April 2002 the international fight against terrorism had just started. Now, thanks to the Bali, Ossetia and above all Madrid bombings, the whole world knows that they can be next even if...