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...CORN CAPO DWAYNE ANDREAS...
...years been famously tight with contributor Dwayne Andreas, the chairman of agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland. Andreas, along with his company and members of his clan, has provided more than $475,000 for Dole's operations since 1979. Dole has proudly called himself "Senator Ethanol" in honor of the corn-based fuel that ADM produces and that Dole has long protected with tax subsidies. But Dole has also played a crucial role in making the sweetener market profitable for ADM by championing the sugar price-support program. ADM is the world's largest producer of high-fructose corn syrup...
Even the tracks which don't project the guitar-heavy brashness of corn-belt rock'n'roll heroes fit neatly into other cliches of popular music. The third track, "New Test Leper," is a low key ballad complete with the type of jangly acoustic guitar which seems to typify radio candy marketed towards teenage girls. On this track, and on the ballad "Be Mine," Stipe's voice takes on the sticky sweetness one would expect from Evan Dando, and his lyrics the groveling desperation of Matthew Sweet: "I want to be your Christmas tree...
Here in the heart of the American Dustbowl, most of the residents work as laborers in the surrounding corn and soybean fields, in the beef-and pork-packing industries or in farm-equipment manufacturing. A group of 20 to 30 migrant farm workers, mostly undocumented Mexican immigrants, come for two months each summer to work in the corn fields, town officials...
Harvard's fortunes are subject to the whim of the corn crop, which has been decimated by high wind and hail in the last two years. "There's many a farmer that has to stand out there every night and literally guard their field--pray for the hail not to come," says Brent Williamson, principal for the 4th through 12th grades at the Harvard Public Schools...