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...have seen firsthand how Mbola's farming households suffer from a recurrent drought--not of water but of nitrogen and other nutrients needed to achieve a decent harvest. Previous harvests have exhausted the soil because Mbola's farmers could not afford chemical or organic fertilizers...
...essential Petey Greene, a man who knew his limits and was determined to live within them. Contra movie conventions, life does not always - make that "usually" - offer us unambiguous success. If we're lucky, we get what Petey got - a few good years, a chance to do some decent work, the nostalgic affection of an ever-dwindling number of people whose lives he touched. Eventually you may come to think of Talk to Me as a true movie rarity - a very honest yet curiously affecting experience...
...hope my roommates are decent,” she said...
...question, of course, is the fate of Iraq. A decent outcome--the defeat of al-Qaeda in what it has made the central front in the war on terrorism and enough security so there can be peaceful rule by a representative regime--seems to me achievable, if we don't lose our nerve here at home. With success in Iraq, progress elsewhere in the Middle East will be easier. The balance sheet is uncertain. But it is by no means necessarily grim...
...with the postage stamp to prove it). Many bore the fast, scrawled messages written from soldiers to their mothers, brothers and lovers, briefly, and hopefully, describing life on the front. I stood mesmerized, reading postcard after postcard. I struggled through, first, the messy, smudged handwriting, second, my mediocre to decent French reading skills, and third, my disbelief that people could express themselves so concisely and poignantly on the back of a four by six photograph...