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Just as folk has handled even its most disconnected moments, Club Passim quietly thrives in the Palmer Street alley, watching Harvard Square grow up and retaliate against itself. Its folk platform has become "Americana," a broad, historically oriented aesthetic that unfortunately seems neither to play to the young nor to exhort the masses. The emcee and speakers at Passim's 40th anniversary concert emphasized that the club was "as good as it ever was," yet this impulse to confirm folk's endurance suggests insecurity over the more insular, less underground but perhaps less relevant position of Americana folk music today...
Alluding to Manley's love for ice cream and for a certain type of flower, Randolph said: "We'll come together, grade the ice-cream, and plant large pots of geraniums, and watch them grow...
...overall size of the Faculty has failed to grow since 1987--despite 20 new positions paid for by the flush coffers of the Faculty in the last 18 months...
...dispute, after fermenting in the gut of the world trade bureaucracy for the past seven years, has become at once more serious and more ludicrous. More serious because, unless the Europeans fulfill their obligations under various trade agreements to accept imported bananas, support for trade restrictions will grow among many U.S. commercial interests and their advocates in Congress. A preliminary settlement appeared to have been reached last week allowing the U.S. to impose punitive tariffs on $520 million in European goods, though that figure is subject to review. Whatever the amount, it is not likely to please Europe, and that...
Many critics asked, reasonably enough: Why is the U.S., which doesn't grow bananas, embroiled in a banana dispute with Europe, which also doesn't grow bananas? Answer: Before the E.U. imposed the current banana regime in 1993, non-E.U. companies controlled 95% of the European banana market. Since then, American companies like Chiquita and Dole have seen their European market share plummet 50%. Hardest hit has been Chiquita, which has lost money four of the past five years--the result, company officials insist, of being denied access to the European market...