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...literacy project is great but most people on campus are not aware of it,” he said. For example, he said students may have noticed the wide variety of squash in dining halls this fall, but might not know about HUDS’ contract with a local farm that grows 40,000 pounds of squash specifically for Harvard. “We help students on campus learn what’s going and get students more involved with the food literacy project when a lot of them don’t know it exits.” Food...
...Connor joined Tutu and Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, for a panel on Saturday, answering questions on the challenges they faced during their lives...
...Blues” and “Cocaine Blues” reintroduce the audience to a roots-oriented Dylan who, with his voice muted and weathered by age, seems almost a more fitting troubadour than the explosive, snarling youth that wailed on “Maggie’s Farm.” The live cuts are all supreme, though they favor recordings prior to his most recent tour—a much more subdued affair than is apparent on a rousing 2002 cut of “Lonesome Day Blues.”To a certain extent, any release...
...wake of 9/11 caused him to make foolhardy decisions despite his good intentions. Traub questions the theory that economic stability and prosperity are necessary for a successful democratic system. He discusses democracy in economically weak Mali at length. Although it has few valuable resources and a subsistence-farm-based economy, the people are genuinely content with the political situation. Drawing on the time he has spent there, Traub convincingly conveys the situation in Mali from a variety of perspectives, allowing the reader to see the social desires that democracy fulfills there. As one Mali citizen declares...
...ailments as the decade of the '20s reached its operatic climax, and it suffered from some others that were peculiarly its own. A stubborn agricultural depression had blighted the American countryside since the conclusion of World War I, crimping the incomes of the 20% of the workforce who were farm laborers and significantly limiting domestic purchasing power. Meanwhile, a notoriously ramshackle, poorly regulated banking system had managed to wobble its dysfunctional way into the modern era. Some 25,000 banks--most of them highly fragile "unitary" institutions with tiny service areas, little or no diversification of clients or assets...