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Other institutions charged with monitoring the countries liable to famine failed to deliver strong, early warnings. Last September the U.S.A.I.D. put out a bulletin on its Famine Early Warning System predicting that Sudan's bad harvest would cause shortages and lead to intensified fighting over supplies, but the organization did not predict a full-scale famine. When the U.N.'s World Food Program, a major partner in Operation Lifeline, was preparing in December to ask donor countries for 30,000 tons of food for Sudan, its own estimates showed at least 35,000 tons would be needed. (Today the program...
...crowds are expected to set records (about 100,000 a day projected), and the tart-cherry harvest looks to be of epic proportions, but the real shocker this year is the lifting of the official ban on the sale of single slices of fresh pie. Huh? For years, as a major sponsor, the Sara Lee Corp. has operated nothing less than a pie cartel during the cherry confab. The only slice of pie a visitor could buy was Sara Lee's, thanks to a sweet deal with festival officials. But in a saga evocative of the breakup...
This past year was marked by the closings of two of the Square's oldest businesses: the Harvest and the Tasty...
...Harvest Restaurant closed in September after serving new-American cuisine to Cambridge residents for almost 25 years...
...Cambridge resident summed up the feelings of many earlier this fall, calling the end of the Harvest "a terrible loss...