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...British Monarchy serves more as fodder for gossip columnists than anything else. Colleges and universities across this country attract students and professors who Harvard might otherwise retaining, and any reverence remaining for Harvard is counterbalanced by an equal dose of disdain...
...truth--and this movie stretches that notion to its breaking point--is not necessarily an excuse for movie-making. A tough movie about a destructive relationship is potentially good fodder for Hollywood, especially now that film-makers are given unprecedented freedom to portray life and love in all its carnal beauty and horror...
...years recreating the communities of natural prairie vegetation that once covered the Midwest. He has gathered seed by hand, replanting, and weeding acre by acre to save these species and their ecosystem from extinction. The prairie grasses--which can rejuvenate over-cultivated land, fight erosion, and provide inexpensive grazing fodder and ground cover--were all but wiped out by intensive agriculture and the introduction of non-native species...
...impression, however, the lives of the 865 people of Fenghuang and of their neighbors in Sichuan province have been revolutionized. Where just six years ago most of the villagers were rice growers, today nearly 80% of Fenghuang's work force is no longer engaged in farming. Some peasants mix fodder, some produce soft drinks, some refine edible oil. Many of them work in a small distillery, brewing a potent rice liquor called feifeng daqu (flying phoenix wine). Whatever their trade, most of Fenghuang's inhabitants are pursuing their ventures jointly in group-owned enterprises known as collectives...
...Women and children and settlers are just cannon fodder for lawyers and bankers," McCrae said. "They're part of the scheme. After the Indians wipe out enough of them you get your public outcry, and we go chouse the Indians out of the way. If they keep coming back then the Army takes over and chouses them worse. Finally the Army will manage to whip 'em down to where they can be squeezed onto some reservation, so the lawyers and bankers can come in and get civilization started. Every bank in Texas ought to pay us a commission...