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The qualities that hit a visitor most forcibly on arrival in Cuba are its beauty and its buoyancy: the crooked streets and sunlit Spanish courtyards of Old Havana; the chrome-polished 1953 Chevrolets that croak along tree-lined streets past faded but still gracious homes of lemon yellow, orange and...
With money scarce, and goods even scarcer, a diplomat observes, "crooked deals multiply until they ensure that the economic plan can never work." Some people take photos, fix jalopies or do typing on the side; others simply try to resell the goods they manage to procure. The rampant finagling is...
The sting began in October 1985 with an FBI agent posing as a supplier of fencing, road signs and other steel products. He apparently had no difficulty distributing $40,000 in bribes to various officials. Only one of the 106 payoffs proffered was rejected, and that was because the amount...
The courage of Juan Alberto Duarte of Paraguay is incandescent. He runs every step of his 300-meter heat with a crooked, skipping swing of his legs, and twice, on nothing but determination, manages to pass the runner ahead of him. But in the end he is last, the ninth...
Playwright August Strindberg defined the family as an institution where self- respect is smothered. A hundred years later Crooked Hearts provides abundant evidence for the prosecution. The Warrens are a Sunbelt household who make failure a way of life. The father, Edward, plummets from history teacher to instructor in driver...