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Most farmers say they'd rather not accept subsidies--if they didn't have to comply with so many government regulations, compete with subsidized farmers abroad and deal with commodity prices beyond their control. And don't get them started on the rising costs of their machinery, inputs and fuel. But their main arguments are that we'd spend more on food in a world without subsidies and that dependence on foreign protein would be even worse than our dependence on foreign oil. "The subsidies help keep us in business, so we can play in the dirt...
...landscapes. Two years ago, he tried to take a group of students to a contemporary-art festival in southern China. Vietnamese authorities stopped them at the border. "The immigration police told me I was not a real artist, so there was no way I could be allowed to go abroad for artistic purposes," recalls Luong, who continues to be hassled by the authorities. Another artist who battles the censors is Truong Tan, who often explores homosexual themes in his Matisse-influenced paintings. Earlier this year, an installation in which Tan constructed a 2-m-high diaper out of police uniforms...
...runs Mai Gallery in Hanoi, referring to artists like Bui Xuan Phai, who died in 1988 and was so destitute that he would trade his moody oil canvases for a meal or two. "By the time Vietnamese realize the value of this art, it'll all be gone abroad...
...Kenyan Mary Onyango's comment that if you can't travel overseas for treatment, "you just sit and wait for your death," prodded me to respond. A year after learning I had breast cancer, I am once again fit and healthy. Contrary to being urged to go abroad for treatment, I had surgery, chemotherapy and radiation in Nairobi, and I have nothing but praise and gratitude for every person involved in my treatment. Hettie Tooley, Eldoret, Kenya...
Justine R. Lescroart ’09 is an English and American literature and language concentrator in Quincy House, and is currently studying abroad in Granada, Spain. Her column appears on alternate Wednesdays...