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...ostensibly to help boost agricultural productivity by growing food on idle farms. In reality, though, human-rights advocates say the army has begun seizing food from peasant farmers, raising fears that this year's harvest will be confiscated to feed soldiers and tighten control over rural opposition strongholds. "All basic foods are now under direct military control," says Eddie Cross, an economist and adviser to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. The latest exercise - dubbed Operation Taguta/ Sisuthi or "eat well" - has been disastrous, according to a report released last month by the Solidarity Peace Trust, a South African human...
...moved to Los Angeles, where he drove a truck for a couple of years (once delivering a kitchen suite to Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, who took a shine to the kid) and where he eventually enrolled at the USC architecture school. There he somehow managed to fail a basic course. In his early years he says he was more drawn to the company of the painters and sculptors leading the vibrant LA artistic scene than to his young architectural peers. Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel , even his psychiatrist, Milton Wexler, make appearances in what might be called supportive roles...
...Baker professor of economics who taught the course for 21 years, Mankiw promised that any changes he would make to the course would be “evolutionary, not revolutionary.” Mankiw seems to have largely stuck to that goal, keeping the basic structure of Ec 10 the same. But in the interview this week, he pointed to further changes that will make students more reliant on the Internet. The course’s $60 sourcebook will be eliminated next year in favor of a free online compilation of readings. According to Mankiw, the Ec 10 staff began...
...does the resolution offer support for a guest worker program, such as that proposed by President Bush. It says that this “would create a second-class citizenry without basic rights that would be disenfranchised and would be vulnerable to exploitation by unscrupulous employers...
...does the resolution offer support for a guest worker program, such as that proposed by President Bush. The resolution says that such a program “would create a second-class citizenry without basic rights that would be disenfranchised and would be vulnerable to exploitation by unscrupulous employers...