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...government control over the shape of the economy: a system encompassing private, cooperative and state ownership, all working to the common good. They talk of taxes, salary scales, redundant employment, monetary reform, but have no idea how they would really work. "One day Cuba will not use any ism to describe our system," boasts Carranza...
...more signs of brewing revolt. Cubans have a genius for adapting, we are told. Cubans are law abiding and have no taste for civil disobedience. Cubans are happy "if they have one plate of food and a bottle of rum," says restaurateur Octavio. Cubans don't believe in any ism but paternalism. "The state has provided for 30 years," says Blanco. "That's not the case anymore, but half the population has not adapted to reality...
Every so often the American art world labors and gives birth to a buzz word or an ism. The latest one -- originating in Los Angeles and current for a couple of years now -- is "patheticism...
...Shellac "Doris" 2. Bikini Kill "Star-Bellied Boy" 3. Kudgel "Chicken Pump" 4. Rancid Hell Spawn "Axe Hore" 5. Thinking Fellers "Undertakers" 6. Guitar Wolf "Red Rockabilly" 7. Element of Crime "Jaws All Ism" 8. Mecca Normal "Echo" 9. Milkmine "Split Tail" 10. Gaunt "Good Bad Happy Sad" 11. Fat Day "Delicate Cutter" 12. Huggy Bear "Pansy Twist" 13. Hammerhead "Evil Twin" 14. The Ex with Tom Cora "Everything and Me" 15. Disorder "Violent Crime" 16. Mad Scene "Holding Pattern" 17. Bugskull "What Shall I Give to the King?" 18. The Smiles "Lions on the Prowl" 19. Ampersands "Postcards...
...gurgling into South Africa soon. First investors will want to weigh the risks and prospects on the new political landscape. "Like others, we're reading the tea leaves before we decide what to do," said a spokesman for IBM, which sold its operations to a local concern known as ISM in 1987. The most intimidating hurdle that prospective investors face is the continuing level of factional violence, most of it black against black. Only a day after the pact on the transitional council was reached, another random outbreak shattered the night in Johannesburg. In two separate attacks, gunmen with automatic...