Subject: Communist Party of Cuba

• "These Salad Bars Are Working!" and Other Important Moments from Gavin Newsom's ENORMOUS YouTube State of the City Address

  By Benjamin Wachs Part 1: Health Care My favorite story about Fidel Castro comes from 1997, when there was considerable speculation that the Old Man was dying. In response, Castro gave a nine-hour address to the Cuban Communist Party, in which he implicitly dared other world leaders to prove that they were healthy enough to stand up for nine hours under hot lights, and shout. I thought of this when I first learned that Gavin Newsom had given a 7-and-a-half hour State of the City Address,

  December 2, 2008