Word: voodoos
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...different. But Republicans candidates simply seem to have more faith in their message--smaller government is better, except when it comes to the military--than Democrats do. And so Democratic candidates pay more attention to small-bore political-issue evasions and tactical finesses than Republicans do. There is immense voodoo power attached to the man or woman who comes to the candidate and says, You can't do that because the polls say the public doesn't like it, or the focus group didn't buy it. Politicians are suckers for almost anyone who tells them what...
...Harvard students don’t hate the class just because it’s boring. The hundreds of first years in Ec 10 find readings largely limited to the opinions of Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein, who spent his glory days designing “voodoo economics” for President Reagan. Occasionally (perhaps through an oversight) an opposing view will slip into the sparse coursepack, but this is rare...
...titles act more to elucidate than to inspire questions. Her medium is dolls—small, featureless bodies sewn from fabric ranging in color from dark brown to silver to light gray. Given the “Afro” title, the silhouetted figures may be intended to evoke voodoo and bocio dolls, which serve in part to protect their creator from the tortures portrayed...
...cannot talk about Haiti without talking about voodoo,” she says...
Cauvin says Haitians have a strange relationship with water, and her paintings allude to water’s symbolism—both life and death, an element of voodoo ceremonies and funerals...