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...sometimes bring home clumps of dirt. They drop by Club One to see a lip-synching, black drag queen named Lady Chablis. They head to Hannah's East to hear Emma Kelly, dubbed the "lady of 6,000 songs." They ask residents how they can track down the voodoo priestess Minerva and want directions to Mercer House, the elegant home on Monterey Square where a fatal shooting occurred. And almost invariably, they walk around with copies of "the Book...
...Georgia's first colonial settlement, Savannah has always drawn Americana-loving retirees and teachers planning school trips. But a more recent wave of visitors now seeks out such outre characters as drag queen Lady Chablis, flamboyant chanteuse Emma Kelly and the voodoo priestess Minerva. TIME staff writer Ginia Bellafante says it's all part of the mania inspired by journalist John Berendt's long-running true-crime bestseller, which just passed the one-year mark on The New York Times bestseller list. The book, now being developed as a movie by Warner Brothers, chronicles a notorious 1981 Savannah murder case...
...1980s, Ronald Reagan told Americans that their problem was government itself and promised that his plan to cut taxes would spur economic growth, increasing tax revenue. This brand of "supply-side economics" was known as "Reaganomics," but was best described by George Bush in a 1980 campaign debate as "voodoo economics...
Harry Sinden: A Bob Goodenow voodoo-doll...
Liberals charge that dynamic scoring is a latter-day version of Reagan-era voodoo economics, a way of slashing taxes without making painful budget cuts. Says Tyson: "We have just gained, after more than a decade, some credibility with financial markets through the hard-won credibility and sanity of our fiscal policy. This is not the moment to change." But Republicans argue that they have an example of how dynamic scoring could have predicted failure: the luxury tax of 1990, which produced disappointing revenues because it crushed the boat industry...