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Castro has been loath to respond by renouncing his socialist credo in the fashion of former communists like Boris Yeltsin. But to salvage what remains of his economy, he has been forced to adapt, imposing some measures that are anathema to his beliefs. In 1990, for example, Castro began soliciting foreign investment. Though he continues to declare that Cuba will never sell off its state-run companies, he has opened up strategic areas such as telecommunications, oil exploration and mining to joint ventures. The latest shocker: condominiums for sale to foreigners, with titillating hints that even land ownership may soon...
...merged-and even if the merger could be accomplished only by borrowing so many billions as to crush the merged company under a mountain of debt. We are still living with the consequences. The need to undo some mergers helped launch the downsizing mania that has spawned a crazy credo: companies exist not for the purpose of producing goods and services, nor even maximizing profits, but in order to reduce their work forces...
...also a moment in which an artistic credo seems to be lurking, one that, with Stoppardian paradox, might be rendered as: Who sees littlest sees furthest. Ever since he became internationally famous while still in his 20s for his philosophical farce Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966), Stoppard has been accused of excessive cleverness -- of having a big mind but a small heart. At bottom Hapgood insists that this division is artificial. As Kerner says, "Every atom is a cathedral...
...track on Stolen Moments samples a comment by philosopher Cornel West that could be the jazz-rap credo. "Often times when young people feel as if they're rebelling," West says, "these forms of rebellion result in falling into the very traps that are being laid." He goes on to say: "One must have a much broader view of how one rebels." Rap is a form of rebellion, but it can be a trap when it plays into violent stereotypes. By adapting the humanism of jazz and channeling the power of rap away from antisocial braggadocio, Digable Planets, the performers...
...explore in terms of the life I know best those things that are common to all culture.' When I read that I said, 'Ah-ha, that's what art should do. This is something I can do.' So I have more or less taken that as my credo, and that's what I try to do when I sit down to work...