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...South Wales. He was clearly under stress: his reputation was on the line (Queensland had trounced N.S.W. under Gibson the previous year) and there was a whisper that, among the players, he was seen as a little out of touch. At team training one morning, while Gibson "fed the chooks," as he called speaking to journalists, I botched the phrasing of a question and he lasered me with a look of contempt. A week or so later, I called him at his home to address a delicate matter of team selection, dreading his reaction to hearing my name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Professional: Jack Gibson 1929-2008 | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...Ebro water north to Barcelona. But when he was first elected in 2004, Zapatero's government overturned a similar plan, hatched by the conservative Popular Party (PP), to divert water south to Valencia. The fact that Barcelona's government is Socialist, while Valencia is ruled by the PP, has fed suspicions of political favoritism. "The government has humiliated us," said Francisco Camps, president of the Valencia region and a PP member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Spain, the Pain of No Rain | 5/13/2008 | See Source »

...Given the environmental spill-over costs of factory farmed meats, HUDS should exert this power. As food prices worldwide spike, most of the world’s corn and soy crops are fed to animals—with grain-fed beef requiring 10 times more grain to produce the same amount of calories as direct grain consumption. This, coupled with absurd ethanol subsidies, incentivizes monoculture production of corn across the Midwest, which in turn erodes soil and creates nitrogen run-off into the Gulf of Mexico...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Down on the Harvard Farm | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

...would never conduct business with any entity that would do such things.” Last week Mr. Mayer told me that HUDS is open to pursuing more humanely produced meats if students demand them, and suggested that soaring gas prices might make local pasture-fed meats more economical...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Down on the Harvard Farm | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

...think I always recognized that it was a myth, but it was a convenient myth to buy into. It was a great excuse for not practicing.”It’s easy to see where Redman’s story might have led: he easily could have fed his mind at Yale Law School and only occasionally nourished his soul with his saxophone. It would have been a carefully balanced life, successful but average.Instead, less than six months after graduating and moving in with some Berklee grads in Brooklyn (he deferred his acceptance to law school), Redman entered...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Practicing His Passion: Joshua Redman '91 | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

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