Word: voodoos
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...good to merely puzzling. Rocca's solo number, "The Cutting Room Floor," showcased one of the performance's best voices in a song that combined humor and a touch of melodrama. (In Pudding shows, the comedy requires melodramatic relief.) Also impressive were Dietderich and Kaiser's well-executed "Deja Voodoo" and Tomarken and St. Clair's hilarious "Cats...
...proposal to cut the capital-gains tax rate is deja voodoo economics all over again. What is novel this time is that the plan is dead on arrival. Bush needs to placate conservatives, who are annoyed that he so easily gave up on their pet project during last fall's budget battle. But by tossing the issue to a blue-ribbon commission, the President has ensured its slow but certain demise. Resisting the temptation to court conservatives on emotional and divisive social issues, he made no mention of abortion, flag burning or affirmative action. Nor did he raise the controversial...
...Georgia for whom vote-winning formulas -- including the infamous "Read my lips, no new taxes" -- are more important than the national interest. There were Democratic liberals like Henry Waxman of California, whose vision of the government as a cash cow for special interests helped spawn taxpayer revolts and voodoo economics. And there were the special-interest lobbyists whose phone-bank politics stampeded Congress into yet another crazed dash to the precipice...
...voodoo, it worked, because Callahan missed his second consecutive game with a back injury...
There, for all to see, was the 1990 Harvard poster--with a picture of Captain Tom Callahan--impaled on the top of the fence encircling Kirkland and Eliot. Presumably, the act was perpetrated by an over-zealous Big Red fan in an attempt at voodoo, but maybe a frustrated Harvard fan was also responsible...