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...farm bill allows farmers with incomes up to $2.5 million per year to collect federal dollars; in 2001, 73 percent of subsidies went to the largest 10 percent of American farms. Previous recipients of much-needed farm aid have included media mogul Ted Turner and Kenneth Lay of Enron fame. David Rockefeller—one of those Rockefellers—received $554,000 in subsidies from 1995 to 2005, despite his estimated net worth of $2.6 billion. Farmer’s need subsidies almost as much as hedge fund managers do. In an era of gaping budget deficits, it seems...
...boxes for their mail (“so the INS can’t find them,” as Enrique explains). We’re even introduced to poor Mexican-American college students Marta and David (played by America Ferrera of “Ugly Betty” fame and Jesse Garcia from “Quinceaña”) who resort to taking illegals across the border for tuition money. It’s a credit to the filmmakers that the movie’s didacticism doesn’t feel unbearably contrived while it?...
...Aztecs seemed more like a minor league team than a college squad. SDSU’s stadium had a video scoreboard in center field, a massive Wall of Fame in right, and several radio broadcasters and television reporters in the press box. The team’s coach was no joke either. Tony Gwynn, recently elected into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame, directed from the opposite bench...
...Staten Island, New-York-based hip-hop group got its start in 1993, initially as a loose affiliation of nine rappers. According to the group’s official Web site, Wu-Tang aimed to make their mark as a group and then pursue solo projects with some fame under their belts...
...think they both deserve to be in the Hall of Fame. You can lump Barry Bonds in. The ability they all had and what they accomplished before anything came into question is worthy of the Hall of Fame...