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...Crayton insists that the balloting was inconsistent, and that there were several times during the four meals set aside for the election when council executives were not present to collect votes...
...have to collect Julio Carranza, the young deputy director of the Communist Party's Center for American Studies, at his house. He has no gas for his car, and his neighborhood is blacked out. We enter another world when we sit down with him and Monreal in the gilded elegance of Havana's Ferminia Restaurant -- dollars only. Wolfing down real meat, the two thirtysomething economists paint glowing pictures of a wondrous second-generation Marxism where quasi-private enterprise pays for the nation's broad social safety...
...plaza, has loosened his tongue. For 30 years his life was good, he says, until dollars were allowed. "I worked, I earned my pay, my family could live just like my neighbors." But he has no family in the U.S. to send money, no relatives working in tourism to collect tips. "Some people can have dollars; I only earn pesos," says Alberto. "The people with dollars can buy a pair of shoes, and I cannot. Why should my neighbor have more than...
...vinyl record and the CD collect the five songs from the last two Heavenly singles, which have been out for the better part of the year on the English Sarah label (about which you can read in the forthcoming Harvard Advocate, should you care to). Heavenly is an extremely talented and extremely happy pop group from Oxford whose ideology, until now, has consisted in the systematic replacement of the most depressing features of adult life'n `love with their more pleasurable childhood equivalents; the band's iconography includes butterflies and flowers and paper cutouts, and bandleader Amelia Fletcher's voice...
WASHINGTON -- Eyebrows went skyward in Washington last week when CIA Director James Woolsey, testifying before an open session of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, raised no objection to suggestions that private firms be allowed to collect and sell satellite-observation photos that can distinguish objects 1 m in size from about 300 km up. Reason: 1-m resolution, which used to be the supreme achievement of sky spies, is passe. Air Force General Frank Horton, also testifying at the hearings, quietly dismissed that as only "medium" capability. In fact, the American intelligence community within the past two years...