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...January Safir surveyed U.S. Attorneys and Drug Enforcement Administration offices around the country, put together a list of some 700 most wanted suspects and had WANT field teams in place by March 1. The basics -- shoe leather, hunches and luck -- played their part, but what made the operation click was Scorecard, an electronic indexing system that Wutrich put together in just two months. "It's the thinking man's search," says John Pascucci, the WANT project manager...
...though Rush's keyboardist, Irwin Fisch, for instance, played a Baldwin grand rigged out with a synthesizer at Symphony Hall. Bill Morrissey is a quirky, funny New Hampshireman who sometimes performs with Rush, singing made-by-hand songs about how he should be working the second shift at the shoe factory, except that here he is in this bar and probably won't make it tonight. David Buskin and Robin Batteau are classically trained musicians, sophisticated enough to put across an intricate, pun-mad parody of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice ("He was a great musician, who finally learned...
...recently as a year ago that bit of finagling might have gone unnoticed. For a time, beginning in the late '70s, the Havana government tolerated financial freewheeling on a modest scale, and Cubans grew accustomed to it. Moonlighting for extra income became commonplace among Cubans with skills in plumbing, shoe cobbling, auto repair and other personal services given short shrift by the centralized economy. Homebuilding turned into a lively cottage industry that helped ease the island nation's chronic housing shortage and rewarded the handy. Faring best of all were the country's farmers, who were allowed to sell items...
Roll over, Karl Marx. Wake up, Friedrich Engels. Nearly 150 years after The Communist Manifesto and 70 years after the Russian Revolution, free enterprise is coming back to the Soviet Union. Businesses ranging from mom-and-pop shoe repair to interior decoration are being legalized under a new "individual labor" law that takes effect this Friday -- which happens, ironically, to be the international socialist holiday May Day. The measure makes it possible for the first time since Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) of the 1920s for individuals to make money legally according to a decidedly un-Marxist principle: from...
...After all, several years ago the personal computer was Time's Man of the Year, and just about every other periodical in circulation has proclaimed repeatedly that this is the Age of the Computer and that knowing how to use one will soon be as necessary as tying a shoe...