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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...
...Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary, now available in a translation by Peter Rand and Lawrence R. Sullivan. "He is like a valuable antique in people's living rooms," Gao says. "If you tell them that it's fake or that it has a crack in it, they cannot accept...
Last year at this time, students were rushing to the post office to send in their application to Harvard. No longer. Though many other undergraduate institutions are gearing up to accept a large portion of their 2012 class, Harvard admissions officers will wait until January to begin vetting applicants. Though few colleges have followed Harvard’s example so far, we still hope that will change as admissions officers across the country come to realize how big of a boon the elimination of early admissions policies is to high school students and universities alike. When Harvard decided last September...
...practice the environmentalism that it preaches. When the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change begins in Bali on Dec. 3, I hope that President Bush is there free of the specter of Byrd-Hagel—and that Congress also recognizes the need for us take a global lead, accept an emissions cap, and make sure that emissions reduction happens domestically...
...hanging of a noose on a black professor’s door at Teachers College at Columbia University, to its display outside a lower Manhattan post office, and throughout Long Island. Nevertheless, banning an image—however reprehensible—is a violation of free speech. If we accept the premise that all people should be free to express themselves, then we cannot deprive certain citizens of that right, even if they promulgate unsavory views in unsavory ways. To do so would be the pinnacle of self-contradiction. According to State Sen. Dean G. Skelos of Long Island...