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Bush shapes a private picture of a man he learned to love and admire, and the one he finally felt comfortable calling Ron. But in the 1980 Republican presidential primaries, the two men sparred, with Bush landing a punch by labeling Reagan's supply-side nostrums "voodoo economics." And then the vagaries of high-level politics put them in harness for the big campaign. "I remember in Reagan's debate with Carter, when Carter said about me, 'Here's your man, and he calls it voodoo economics, so what are you going to do?' Reagan looks over...
...Dominique, his followers and poor Haitians in general is ultimately the theme that ties the film’s large historical bookends. Demme dredges up some oft-unseen footage of Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier’s reign, which was marked by bizarre voodoo rituals at the presidential palace and the terror of the ubiquitous Tons Tons Macoutes, a troupe of Boy Scouts-gone-wrong, who bore automatic weapons in support of the ruling power. The transformation of Papa Doc’s regime into Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier?...
Tight budgets have led to some strange choices in the past. Artists who have performed at Springfest range from bands well past their peak, like the Violent Femmes in 1999, to novelty acts, like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy in 2000, to downright bewildering choices, like God Street Wine...
...Duvalier's] eight years of power, the onetime country doctor-turned-dictator has alienated almost every friend and neighbor... His own people regard him with horror. Yet through murder, terror and voodoo mysticism, Papa Doc has set himself up as 'President for life' and wields unshakable control over his tiny country ... The one paved road in Haiti ... is now in ruins, pot-holed with foot-deep craters ... The country's once flourishing tourist trade has dwindled from $5,000,000 in the 1958-59 season to less than $500,000 ... All the while, Duvalier's reign of terror continues. Shortly...
...concept of quantum teleportation, first postulated in 1993 by IBM researcher Charles Bennet, has been likened to voodoo. But it is a reality, due in large part to the work of Nicolas Gisin, 52, and his 20 or so graduate students and research assistants at the University of Geneva's Group of Applied Physics. In the basement of the university's old medical-school building, Gisin commands a series of laboratories crisscrossed with laser beams and crowded with the gizmos that make teleportation possible: photon counters, interferometers and plain old mirrors that bounce the lasers around. Last year Gisin...