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Nearby, Jesus, a 31-year-old bank teller, shelters himself from the storm beneath the facade of Old Havana's Almacenes Lux department store. The Lux is filled with busy people buying soap from Mexico, soda from Venezuela, baby strollers from Europe, and shoes, clothes and neon-color backpacks, some made in the U.S. The buyers are Cubans with dollars, but Jesus has none. He lacks relatives in America and does not work in a dollar-paying job. Is he bothered by his deprivation? He shrugs. "It's in the nature of the poor to covet what the rich have...
...west, in the Nuevo Vedado district, Eugenio, a sports trainer, produces his ration book. For July he was allotted 6 lbs. of rice, 10 oz. of beans, 1/2 lb. of oil, 3 lbs. of sugar, 1 oz. of coffee, one bar of bath soap, three packs of cigarettes. No meat. In May it was rice, beans, sugar and coffee; no oil; no soap; no cigarettes; two cans of beer. No meat. Yet Eugenio will not be rafting. He is a master of resolviendo -- the Cuban art of barter, the cut corner, the gray market. His wife works in a cigarette...
...refugees say hope has died. Ration books provide barely two weeks' worth of food. For the rest, families must rely on the black market, $ where 120 to 150 pesos, generally half a month's salary, buys only one U.S. dollar. "We had been waiting four or five months for soap. Everybody has got skin diseases, so we're taking baths with leaves now," says Elvis the bakery worker...
Strewn amongst the walkways that encircled the stage were vendors and activists hawking their wares. By far and away the most popular table was the Rainforest Action Network's neighbor, the Cannabis Action Network. Among petitions for the legalization of marijuana was an assortment of hemp products: shoes, rope, soap--everything but the dope itself...
...past year, the network that Larry Tisch is credited with turning around has experienced positives and negatives in equal measure. CBS had become the first network to lead the ratings in daytime (with hot soap operas like The Young and the Restless), prime time (with aging but still potent shows like 60 Minutes and Murphy Brown) and late night (with the boffo debut of David Letterman). But its triumphs on the air were clouded by fiascos in the conference rooms. Losing the affiliates to Fox was only part of it. The Eye web had fumbled its rights to N.F.L. games...