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...countries; agriculture is responsible for 11% of its GDP, compared to 2% in the E.U. The dean of Ljubljana University, former Foreign Minister Joze Mencinger, has a mordant suggestion for protecting farming in the east. "We should really register it as a form of cultural activity," he says, like folk dancing. "It has more to do with our way of life than with profit." There will, of course, be winners too. Big business will certainly gain, including some homegrown entrepreneurs in the east who have brought their firms up to Western standards but pay lower wages...
...yesterday’s student protesters in front of the Science Center look kind of familiar? These are, after all, the same folks who brought us such hits as “Living Wage,” “Justice for Janitors,” “Save Cornel West,” and “Justice for Janitors We Didn’t Get Justice For Last Time.” In my four years here, they have been more omnipresent than B.J. Averell ‘03 and as unavoidable as an IOP poster. Well...
Zeke W. Reich ’03, a member of the Harvard Folk Song Society, who spoke with an acoustic guitar strapped to his shoulder, warned students that promoting peace would require sustained effort...
...past, Pakistani religious parties seldom grabbed more than five percent of the vote. The country's intelligentsia likes to claim this is because, once all the hollering dies down and ballots are cast, Pakistanis are moderate, secular folk. In fact, most Pakistanis are poor, unschooled people who traditionally vote as their feudal squires command?or suffer their wrath. With the two big parties in retreat, the hard-line religious coalition is leading a whole lot of voters to the booths. Polls indicate that the MMA could win 30 to 50 of the 270 National Assembly seats. (Another 70 seats...
...size record store on Sunset Boulevard that is filled with lonely, unshaven guys in vintage T shirts and about half a million CDs. It is High Church for music geeks, and strolling through Amoeba with Beck--the wispy singer who has made a career out of fusing rap, rock, folk, funk, irony and earnestness--is like cruising the Vatican with the Pope. As Beck moves from the back-room blues section to the used vinyl, everyone sneaks a quick, reverent glance and returns to flipping through the racks, or at least pretending to flip through the racks. All eyes still...