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...intentionally, no. But, he’s singing to the farmer at the end of the song. He’s forgiving him. As he’s going to be slaughtered...
...said. “It doesn’t really add up to that match.” Among the contributors to the Harvard Refugee Committee’s fundraising efforts were House tutors and College parents, netting praise from dignitaries such as Albert Einstein and Frances Farmer, The Crimson reported. “It wasn’t much in the way of organized activity,” Keller said. But “it is kind of striking that the students were as active as anybody else,” he added. Last night, Harvard Hillel sponsored...
...kids fed and educated. Others are spending what little money they have to court the gods. On the outskirts of Quanzhou, where locals pick tobacco leaves for a living, poor villagers have banded together to build a shrine to Kwanyin, the goddess of mercy. "We need her help," says farmer Zhou Bigong. "We work hard, but life is getting harder and harder." When Zhou was younger, openly worshiping Kwanyin wasn't allowed. Now, the goddess is back to nourish a whole new generation of devotees...
...impacts of such development will be immense, ranging from the destruction of wildlife habitat to the loss of sediment transfer - the natural movement of soil downstream to create alluvial floodplains that farmers have relied upon for centuries. Thousands of villagers would have to be relocated to make room for dams and reservoirs, and many would still not benefit directly from new power production because most of the electricity would be used in cities, not in rural areas. Environmentalists are also skeptical that the ambitious integrated scheme would ever work. "It's pie-in-the-sky stuff," says Lori Pottinger, director...
...Mexico is one quarter that of the U.S., and an estimated 40 percent of the population lives below the poverty line. This vast inequality of wealth drives many to seek a better life in the U.S., regardless of the illegality and danger of the means. The average farmer has no philosophical underpinnings for his immigration; he is trying neither to change the world nor bring down the United States, but only to provide food and a better life for his family. The prosperity of our southern neighbors is inextricably bound up in our own prosperity. If we wish to stop...