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Leaning across the listening booth in the language lab to compare a French pronounciation...
...wouldn't go through the pain." As Mario Vizcaino, director of the city's Cuban National Planning Council, puts it: "Ten years ago, to become an American citizen was almost an act of betrayal. Now there is a growing awareness of voting power, that the voting booth is the place to get things done." Coupled with that attitude is a developing feeling that perhaps the U.S. is, after all, the Promised Land-a feeling that 132 other Cubans were allowed to share recently, when the Castro regime, in a small bid to thaw chilly relations with...
After taking his place in a sales booth in the permanent U.S. trade center in Tokyo, Robert Yardley, a sales executive with the middle-size Warwick, R.I., toolmaking firm Leesona Corp., was puzzled by two Japanese who came and stood at his display but had no interest whatsoever in the machinery. When Yardley inquired why they had come, one of the men pulled out a letter and said, "We are only here for this reason." The letter, Yardley deduced, was from one of the big trading companies, which had ordered his smaller firm to put in an appearance...
...Midwest Academy: Chicago training school for organizers, run by Heather and Paul Booth, "two of the three organizing genuises in this country," (the other being Mike Ansara of Mass Fair Share, according to those who know...
...then, proving my fate that night was totally screwed, that long tall mean queen appeared, primed to drive me out into the night. Sitting in her isolated booth, she cast hostile glances at everyone in the restaurant. As our eyes met I jerked away in fear and applied renewed attention to my place mat. As she attacked her order, her wig came askew. The nextlook in my direction was so full of violence that I could almost feel a blow. Tossing a bill on the table, I dragged my near comatose roommate...