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...satellite TV came to the Warana sugarcane-growing region of Maharashtra state, some 250 miles southeast of Bombay, and the ground started moving under the farming village of Pokhale. "Even one-year-olds started shaking their hips like those MTV girls," says farmer Shantappa Ghewari. More than a year later, another magical box was installed in the village, and Pokhale became one of 70 villages in the region to take part in the "Wired Village Warana," a $600,000 information-technology project initiated by the federal government. All the villages in the area have computer kiosks that are linked...
...done a lot of things in my life. I've been a soldier, a reporter, a farmer and a divinity student. And 24 years ago, I decided to become a public servant. And ever since then, I have dedicated my life to a certain set of ideals. That democracy is something sacred. That under it, all men are created equal. And that America is the land of opportunity...
Burton issued two warnings last night, to David B. Orr '01 of Cabot House and B.J. Averell '02 of Dunster House. He also announced that Erica A. Farmer '01 of Currier House and Benjamin L. McKean '02 of Cabot House have resigned from the council...
...that should make him unbeatable in a state with more than its share of crusty independents (and tobacco chewers). But Burns has just a narrow lead over Brian Schweitzer, a wealthy farmer riding a wave of resentment over the high cost of prescription drugs. Schweitzer, 45, first caught Montanans' attention by leading busloads of seniors on drug-buying trips across the Canadian border, where prescription drugs can be half as costly as in the U.S. Now Burns hands out packets showing measures he backs to lower drug costs for the elderly...
There were three questions that were most representative of the candidates' respective performances. The first came from a farmer asking what each candidate's administration would do to preserve the family farmers' way of life. Gore answered the question directly, specifically and sympathetically. He cited the failures of the 1996 Freedom to Farm Act and talked about better husbandry of the land. He called farmers the "first environmentalists" and suggested expanding the conservation reserve program so that farmers could manage their land themselves but be rewarded for keeping it healthy, for instance by leaving weakened fields fallow to prevent soil...