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That awakening is enhanced by growing contact between students and farmers. At the University of Portland's local-foods lunch, fish broker Amy Dickson set up a display with shells, nets and a sign reading SIGNATURE SALMON: 100% LINE-CAUGHT IN OREGON WATERS. "My slogan is 'Roe vs. Wave: Salmon is a choice,'" she joked. Aaron Silverman of Greener Pastures Poultry gave out brochures describing how his chickens "wobble around as they please." And wheat farmer Karl Kupers touted the environmental benefits of no-till planting. "Students come up and shake your hand and call you a hero," said Kupers...
...subtle allegory of the clash between Eastern and Western values, and although he is clearly a foil to Shalimar, he emerges as a tragic hero. We hate him for his selfish womanizing, but admire him for being “the Resistance hero, the philosopher prince, the billionaire power-broker, the maker of the world!” The novel powerfully integrates life and history, rendering the ways in which people react to times of crisis, sometimes fighting to preserve a way of life and other times shrinking into cowardice. Though much of “Shalimar the Clown?...
...wants its parents and donors to support relief efforts, it should include with its term bills and solicitations requests that money be sent directly to worthy charities, as well as to Harvard. Given the specific purposes for which its tax exemption was granted, Harvard should not act as a broker between its family and other charities, however urgent and compelling their causes...
...often rowdy world of commodities trading, Phillip Bennett, the chief of giant commodities broker Refco, seemed like a cut above. An elegant, Cambridge-educated detail man, he often dressed in three-piece suits, lived on a horse farm in New Jersey and was something of a gourmet. Bennett brought an aura of respectability to a firm that was known for highflying, sometimes sloppy ways, offering a striking contrast with Refco founder Thomas Dittmer, a cattle and oil trader and all-around swashbuckling guy who liked to hand out gold watches when he made a great trade. "They were rough, very...
...that had driven software firm Sedona into the ground. Refco disclosed the investigation when it went public, saying the case would be resolved. But it never was, raising questions as to whether the IPO should have proceeded with Maggio on board. As for Bennett's debt maneuverings, says futures broker James Mound: "You wonder why someone so wealthy, in such a powerful position, would do something so immoral." Prosecutors aim to find out, but Refco customers weren't waiting. They scrambled last week to take their business elsewhere in an exodus that may bring down the house of Refco...