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...anonymous prayers can heal you, then my anonymous curses should be able to make you quite sick. You can't have this kind of faith healing without opening the door to voodoo. ROB EISENBERG Tryon, North Carolina Via E-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1996 | 7/15/1996 | See Source »

...Maybe voodoo dolls were the difference, because little else can explain how the Big Red managed to first tie the game and then...

Author: By David S. Griffel, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: M. Hockey Loses ECAC Heartbreaker | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...Gingrich branded part of it "nonsense," the two Washingtonians found themselves rebuked by none other than House majority leader Dick Armey, a longtime flat-tax champion. "In politics, panicky candidates sometimes say things they never live down," Armey warned. "In 1980 George Bush mischaracterized Reagan's policies as 'voodoo economics,' and it haunted him for the rest of his career," Armey argued. "The flat tax is the future of the Republican Party." As Armey and Dole hashed out the details of the congressional schedule in the Senate cloakroom recently, Dole sought to mollify the House majority leader, saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: BATTLING THE PARTY CRASHERS | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

Without law and order, says Theodore Beaubrun Jr., leader of the voodoo rock band Boukman Eksperyans, "everyone makes their own justice." Mobs play judge and jury, hacking people to death for crimes real or imagined. The omnipresent "popular organizations," self-proclaimed local leaders who act as watchdog, pressure group and enforcer of political correctness, command the masses and own the real power. "The popular organizations control this city," says Jean Robert Lalannes, a Cap Haitien radio-station director threatened with death after he criticized Aristide. "The vacuum of state authority is complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DID THE AMERICAN MISSION MATTER? | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

Maybe. Remember David Stockman? During the first Reagan term--a period that I and, I assume, many eminent economists have referred to ever since as Voodoo I--Stockman admitted that the supposed tax-reform bill the President managed to get through Congress was actually a "Trojan horse" whose real purpose was tax breaks for the rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A CASE OF THE GIGGLES | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

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