Word: voodoos
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...century. The play's divisions between city and forest, between earthbound mortals and ethereal spirits thus become racial differences as well. White colonial masters stumble through the enchanted wood uncomprehendingly, while brown and black aborigines, attuned to the realm of magic, dance to throbbing Afro-Brazilian music and cast voodoo spells...
...voodoo priest in the southern region of Grande Anse, famed for his clairvoyant powers, foresees blood in Haiti's immediate future. He is not alone. A young woman who identifies herself only as Monique has piled her four small children onto a crowded bus that is heading for the boondocks. Like many others who live in the slums that surround Port-au-Prince, Monique does not want to be anywhere near the capital city during the election scheduled this Sunday. "I'm disappearing," she whispers, her eyes darting to see if she has been overheard. South of the capital...
...biggest elements in Reagan's landslide re-election was the widespread belief that he had brought the U.S. a kind of permanent prosperity. Reaganomics -- which meant cutting taxes and incurring deficits beyond anything John Maynard Keynes ever dreamed -- struck some experts as voodoo economics (as the future Vice President George Bush christened it in 1980), but the boom rolled on. A doubled national debt of more than $2 trillion? Trade deficits of more than $15 billion a month? What did that matter, when inflation had been cut to about 4.5%, unemployment to 5.9%, and the Dow Jones soared well over...
DEMOCRATIC rivals are right to denounce Simon's "solution" as "neo-voodoo" economics. Congressman Richard Gephardt, a supporter of the disastrous 1981 Reagan tax cut, had what for him was an unusual moment of insight during Tuesday's debate when he called Simon's ideas, "Reaganomics with...
...capital-gain levy from 28% to 15%. Supposedly that would eventually . spur investments, but it would probably reduce Government revenues initially, according to the Treasury Department. More broadly, Bush has not answered the most basic questions about his own economic philosophy. Until he became an acolyte of "voodoo economics," as he called Ronald Reagan's program in 1980, he was a standard deficits-do-matter conservative. What...