Word: carrot
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Enter Castro, holding a carrot. Desperate for foreign currency, he has opened up large sectors of his economy to foreign investment, an opportunity that American companies-and Cuban-American entrepreneurs-can't take advantage of because of the embargo. Meanwhile, the children of older refugees, now grown, have little memory of Cuba and less attachment to the dream of returning...
...come back to Harvard is to return to a simpler athletic time. The genius of Harvard athletics is in its purity and innocence; in the pretense that playing hard on the field is the most important thing and that winning is not the bread and butter but the carrot and stick...
...they serve Chocolate Orgasms from Rosie's, and a huge hollowed loaf of sourdough filled with warm Split-Pea Soup. With big chunks of carrot and potato. Plus the tea comes in melior pots. And the spoons are all crooked. This place is the coolest thing since e-mail...
...onion focaccia and crushed olive rolls, all obviously fresh and exceptionally well priced. A variety of pound cakes, cookies and giant biscotti lay on the counter; a friendly, exuberant staff sits behind it. Besides staple deli drinks such as IBC root beer and cream soda, they offer "Fresh Samantha" carrot juice, fresh squeezed orange juice and fruit smoothies, produced and delivered by a local businessman...
...sneaky way, not so much by preaching against sex as by bringing enough structure and accomplishment to the lives of the kids involved that they keep themselves in line. As the ultimate incentive, every graduate is promised admission to Hunter, with full tuition. "We knew we needed a carrot-and-stick approach -- and Hunter was the carrot," says Donna Shalala, Bill Clinton's Secretary of Health and Human Services, who initiated the program in 1985 when she was the school's president...