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...used to lure tourists. Unfortunately, city officials seem to think it applies to them as well. One of the mayor's chief foes, a Cuban-American multimillionaire, once offered to settle their feud with a duel in Central America. A few years ago, when city bureaucrats squabbled over jobs, voodoo dolls with tiny nooses began appearing at City Hall. And Miami officials were caught buying stolen designer clothing for pennies on the dollar in a scandal known as "Hot Suits...
...young L.A. layabouts in Swingers pretend to think, playing it oh so cool with the "babies" and thinking they're classy when ordering pricey Scotch--something with "Glen" in its name. They bop to the knowing bounce of Louis Jordan, Bobby Darin, Basie and Bennett and the Big Bad Voodoo Daddy band, and check out Sinatra Night at the Lava Lounge. Las Vegas is Lourdes to them; they drive there in the hope that some casino boss will think they are "money" (it's used as an adjective meaning radiating success) and offer to put them up in "the Rain...
...plan for a 15% tax cut will supposedly work because this extra money in people's pockets will create new jobs, increase productivity and still make possible the elimination of the deficit by 2002, as scheduled. Well, hey, if this is not voodoo economics but will really work, why not cut taxes 25% or even 30%, thereby doubling the number of jobs created and productivity, and making possible the elimination of the deficit in three--maybe even two--years? This tax-cutting idea has endless possibilities. JOHN R. MAYER Melville, New York...
...increased efficiency in government and lower administrative spending in non-defense programs, and by auctioning off publicly owned broadcast bandwidths to the highest bidder. The White House was on the warpath before the plan was even released, calling the plan "a collection of gimmicks, double counting and voodoo growth assumptions," which would blow a huge hole in the deficit. "Dole is looking for a bold strike which combines his economic proposal, his vice presidential choice and his Republican convention appearance next week," says TIME's James Carney. "He needs all three of these elements to be successful to make...
...sounds like the sort of remedy a witch doctor might dream up: take blood from the discarded placenta of a newborn baby and inject it into a child suffering from leukemia. But it is not voodoo. According to a study of 25 children published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, the unusual treatment may work better than a bone-marrow transplant in treating the childhood cancer. Placental blood might even be used someday to treat other blood and immune-system disorders--from sickle-cell anemia to AIDS...