Word: havana
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...tapestry" for which he has set to music letters, diaries and other documents from the war. It will be released, as usual, first as an album (performed by artists ranging from Trisha Yearwood to Hootie & the Blowfish), then as a TV special, and finally a stage show. After that: Havana, a "musical comedy noir" set in the 1940s; a musical version of Alice in Wonderland; and Svengali, the second (after Jekyll) in what he envisions as a gothic trilogy...
...HAVANA: It could be that Fidel Castro is auditioning for the role of a reformed Ebenezer Scrooge, who wakes from his troubled sleep with time left to spread the holiday spirit. It's more likely, however, that he just wants to impress Pope John Paul II, who at the end of January becomes the first pontiff ever to visit this Caribbean island. That's the thinking behind Castro's unprecedented decision to make Christmas an official holiday in Cuba this year...
MIAMI: Fidel Castro will sleep just a little bit easier tonight as Miami?s Cuban exile community mourns the death of his would-be nemesis, Jorge Mas Canosa. Indeed, says TIME correspondent and former Havana bureau chief Cathy Booth, ?Castro is probably dancing all over Havana. He?s outlasted umpteen U.S. presidents, and now he?s outlasted the leader of his opposition in Miami...
Born into a wealthy Cuban family, he was raised in privilege and schooled at Yale. He began his career in 1954 as a chemist at the company in Havana. That life changed abruptly after he fled Fidel Castro's Cuba in 1961, an event he called the most significant in his life. He and his wife got out with a suitcase and 100 shares of Coca-Cola, which he never sold. He rejoined the company in Florida and progressed through the ranks. By 1974, as head of Coke's labs, he was one of only two top chemists allowed...
Goizueta's anonymity ended after he became a protege of another Coke legend, former CEO Robert W. Woodruff, who became increasingly impressed by the intensity and integrity of the man from Havana. With Woodruff's influence, Goizueta was tapped in 1981 to run the Atlanta-based company. At the time Coke was an omnipresent but floundering symbol of American business and culture. Subsequently, Goizueta became one of the most highly regarded of all CEOs, having turned one of the world's most nonessential consumer products into a money spinner with annual sales of $18.5 billion. "No one loved the Coca...