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...found that the floods themselves weren't entirely to blame for the famine. Farmers whose fields were destroyed had no way to make ends meet, since their government did not find a way to employ them gainfully...
...years since the depository was founded, this basic scheme has undergone some revision. But because the facility is one of the first of its kind, Lane has had to play it by ear and employ some good old Yankee ingenuity...
Women-owned businesses have more than doubled in the past 12 years, to 9.1 million. These businesses employ 27.5 million people and generate more than $3.6 trillion in sales, according to the National Foundation for Women Business Owners (NFWBO), which bases its research on census data. Surveys suggest that 64% of female business owners are married, 80% have children, and 44% have children or elderly parents living with them...
...egregiously rude, but equally unproductive, were those who called Buchanan to task for his past offenses, both spoken and written. There are certainly plenty of these, and bringing them to light is a legitimate tactic of criticism. But, for some reason, those at yesterday's address felt compelled to employ what I can only describe as a carpet-bombing approach. Rather than rationally probe Buchanan's extremely vulnerable ideas, each questioner, in their turn, would simply let out a maelstrom: "Mr. Buchanan, in 1977 you wrote 'x' about the Jews. In 1983 you wrote 'y' about black people...
...black, alone but not lonely, pursuing a treacherous trade, doing business with lethal idiots who understand his methods but not his magic. He is Ghost Dog, a philosophical black gunman who runs afoul of the mobsters who employ him in Jim Jarmusch's niftily quirky Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. And yes, he is Jarmusch as well--a filmmaker who, since his 1984 Stranger Than Paradise, has pretty much defined the spirit of the truly independent American film. Ghost Dog is talking about himself and his Mafia contact, but he might be speaking of Jarmusch when he says...