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...organic coffee, almost 10% more than the market price. But Antonio is left with only 50˘ per lb. after paying Fair Trade cooperative fees, government taxes and farming expenses. By year's end, he says, from the few thousand pounds he grows, he'll pocket about $1,000 - around half the meager minimum wage in Guatemala - or $2.75 a day, not enough for Starbucks' cheapest latte. The same holds true for other Guatemalan growers, like Mateo Reynoso, also from Quetzaltenango. Without Fair Trade, he says, "we wouldn't be growing coffee anymore." But even Fair Trade prices "haven't kept...
President Obama's name won't be on the ballot, but the White House is plunging into the fray for 2010's elections regardless. The President and his top aides have intervened in races in at least half a dozen states, most recently urging unpopular New York Governor David Paterson not to seek re-election. (Paterson still cordially greeted Obama in Albany Sept. 21.) Congressional redistricting in 2010 makes statehouse control key, though some say the politicking looks crass. Former GOP guru Karl Rove called Paterson's treatment by the White House "ham-handed...
Irving Kristol did not coin the term neoconservative, but he was probably the only person fully happy to have it applied to him. In elegant essays published over half a century, Kristol argued the case for a pragmatic, empirical conservatism that could make its peace with the New Deal and the civil rights revolution...
...They’re an extremely good team,” Pollak said of Yale. “Playing that course on a day-to-day basis helps them a lot. They may be little half-stroke advantages, but in the end, it adds up to a significant difference...
Heading into the back half of the fall season, Harvard remains confident about its standing among the stiff competition in the rest of the Ivy league...