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...whopping $90,000. Farmers note that prices will likely fall once again, just as the crop booms of the ’70s were followed by lean years in the early ’80s, but cyclical market fluctuations are a feature of nearly any business. Government policies have gone to ridiculous lengths to remove the risk from farming, offering “emergency disaster payments” for crop failure while at the same time subsidizing insurance to cover those failures. For that matter, from 2000 to 2006, $1.3 billion was give to individuals who don?...
...Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy. These loyalties spring from years of careful attention, affection, and devotion, season after season of heartbreak alternating, regularly but unpredictably, with triumph. These are bonds formed not only over the course of a lifetime, but inherited intact from generations that have gone before...
...with separatist rebels in the province; in early March, the press reported that a Uighur woman had attempted to bring down a domestic passenger jet with a homemade bomb. Add to that widespread discontent throughout China over issues such as corruption and rapidly worsening inflation (prices of pork have gone up by two-thirds in the past year) and you have what Bequelin calls the makings of a perfect storm...
...What Harvard needs is not a lax drinking policy, but a renewed commitment to breaking the rules. Administrators, tutors, and the like have gone soft in recent years, and frankly so have we. Drinking before one’s 21st birthday, long a secret indulgence, has been stripped of its thrill as liquor has flowed freely across the College...
...both in terms of the levels of giving and increasing the breadth of giving.” But not all smaller schools are victims of the dearth of experience cited in the survey. Vice President for Development at Dickinson College Donald A. Hasseltine reported that their campaign has gone “very well,” noting that past and current trustees gave about $45 million of the $125 million raised to date. Advancement officers at Williams— one of the survey respondents—reported similar satisfaction with the involvement of their trustees in the campaign process...