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...proof of his willingness to be thought insane, Depp's first post-Pirates movie is Secret Window, in theaters this Friday. He plays Mort Rainey, a successful writer being stalked by a psychotic dairy farmer. Before the movie ends, for reasons too crucial to the plot to fully explain, Mort manically consumes the equivalent of Iowa's annual corn harvest. But that's not the crazy part. "Much of the first half of the movie is just Mort in a cabin by himself not doing things," says Secret Window's writer-director, David Koepp, a man you would expect...
...pastes an official seal that reads fair trade certified, proof that it paid a living wage to the growers. "The Taste of a Better World" is Green Mountain's marketing slogan, and its Fair Trade sales grew 92% last year. Says spokesman Rick Peyser: "Fair Trade puts the farmer's face on the cup of coffee. Our customers want the human link...
...company is no Scrooge. It pays on average $1.20 per lb. for its high-quality beans, well above average. But most of that money goes to multinational exporters, who buy from middlemen in coffee regions. The giant traders pool beans from small plots and big estates. The anonymous farmer earns a sliver of what Starbucks pays. But Fair Trade's 346 struggling farmer-owned co-ops might need hands-on training and investment to meet Starbucks' specs, an investment the company might find expensive. Indeed, to improve Huatusco Java, Green Mountain had to computerize quality control and bring Mexican farmers...
...contrast to his attack on academic freedom, my course models a democratic openness. This week, the students will read about and then interview Dr. Paul Farmer, who labors among AIDS patients at the clinic he founded in Haiti. The interview will give us an opportunity to deliberate pressing moral questions, about how we choose to use our own abilities, and about our collective choices in a world of health inequities. I admire my students for taking such issues seriously...
...Keeshan began acting in 1948 as the frenetic clown Clarabell on the Howdy Doody Show. Seven years later, at the age of 28, he debuted as the grandfatherly Captain Kangaroo, who was named for his multipocketed jacket. He taught subtle lessons in chats with characters like the animal-loving farmer Mr. Green Jeans, the carrot-craving Bunny Rabbit and the laconic Grandfather Clock. Keeshan, who didn't patronize his audience, lamented in 1993 that recent television programs for kids were too simplistic for children. "There's no room to stretch," he said...