Word: lets
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...Cuba in January--the first U.S. trade show there since Castro's 1959 revolution. Health care, though advanced in Cuba, suffers severe shortages. At Havana's William Soler Pediatric Hospital, the German and Japanese equipment is obsolete. "It seems medically unethical," says director Dr. Diana Martinez, "not to let Cuba buy this equipment more cheaply from...
...movies. And though Morton is--so far--virtually unknown in the U.S., she believed that the audition cut both ways. "I have to decide whether a person is right to direct me," she explains. She knew nothing of the legendary Allen secretiveness: how, for example, he won't let actors see his scripts, just the scenes in which they appear. Morton simply had to read Sweet and Lowdown before taking the part Allen offered her on her 21st birthday. "I was totally frank with him and said I'd been offered this other film," she says. "I said...
...often hard to find real experience in the cartoonish raps of many gangsta rappers. Q-Tip, on his new album, Amplified (Arista), brings back the honesty--but doesn't cut back on the fun. This is a party album about picking up chicks (Vivrant Thing), cruising the streets (Let's Ride) and dancing in clubs (Breathe & Stop). "I look at a track like a lady I'm about to get into a relationship with," says Q-Tip. "I let the music guide me and take me wherever...
Edward M. Kennedy, despite his long career in the U.S. Senate, is still often known as Teddy, the diminutive attached to him as the youngest brother in his powerful family. The nickname persists because he was blessed and cursed by the gift of years that let him lead a full and well-publicized life that could only diminish him against the gargantuan mythology grown up around his murdered brothers John and Robert...
...English. Dunn writes, "The American model was France's for the taking--after all, she had paid for it, and her officers and soldiers had fought and died for it." Said a French veteran of the American Revolutionary War: "They have given a great example to the new hemisphere. Let us give it to the universe!" But as their own revolutionary fervor increased during the 1780s, the French began to believe that the Americans had not gone far enough in shucking off the bad old ways. Did not, say, the creation of a Senate allowing representation by land--the states...