At a colossal price, Fidel Castro's pursuit of socialism has forged a unique aesthetic, freed from agitation, caught in a haunting equilibrium of stillness and decay.
Even Mr Chirac might balk at the colossal price that would mean paying and all for the sake of a few coddled farmers, who make up less than 3% of the EU's population.
Madeleine Bunting argues that the famine in Somalia is really about the war on terror, accusing aid agencies of not being political enough (Somalia was a sideshow in the war on terror – and is paying a colossal price, 12 September).
In fact, when historians reflect on the early decades of the 21st century Somalia, alongside Afghanistan and Iraq, will be seen as having paid a colossal price in human life as a result of the US war on terror.
All too often we announce new strategies or five-year plans, or launch new documents – often with colossal price tags attached – that are received by the public with incredulity at best and, at worst, with hostility.
She said: "Consumers are bearing the brunt of colossal price hikes in domestic energy bills because of the over reliance of the big six energy suppliers on importing expensive fossil fuels while at the same time ignoring clean energy sources around our shores".
Mr. Cohen diminishes Cuba's real achievements in raising the standard of living for all its people with phrases like "at a colossal price" and "thanks to socialist economic disaster," and seems to lay the blame for Cuba's limitations solely at its own feet.
