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...illiterate farmers, this Indian diplomat was born in a small village 25 miles north of Delhi. But Prem Singh did not stay for the harvest; he soon left the local grasslands for the international field...
Harvard's Halloween harvest heists have gone unreported, security officials said. SALEM STATE COLLEGE...
...City, as well as in Africa, have known for two decades that Soyinka is a writer worth watching and hearing. An evening in the presence of his words might bring anything: A Dance of the Forests (1960), a dreamlike, ritualistic celebration of Nigerian independence edged with satire; Kongi's Harvest (1965), a biting attack on an Nkrumah-like dictator. Soyinka has found widespread favor without ever courting it. His writings have charged the West with soulless materialism and his fellow Africans with barbarisms and corruption. He has staked his art in a no-man's-land between conflicting cultures...
Lara, author of If You Plant Winds, You Will Harvest Storms, a 1982 book profiling three leaders of the Colombian rebel group M-19, told reporters she had no idea why she was detained. "Maybe they didn't like the book," she shrugged. From mid-1983 to early 1984, Lara worked as a correspondent in Havana for Caracol Radio, a Colombian station, leading some to speculate that the INS suspected her of ties to the Castro government. But Lara pointed out that she entered the U.S. earlier this year on the same visa, which was issued last fall in Paris...
Through the summer the Louisiana law forbids shrimping in "inside" waters. This is to protect the breeding grounds in the marshes and lakes, to assure there will be something to harvest each year when open season comes round. The shrimpers in these parts run out into the gulf at night, turn their bows inshore just at the designated line that divides "outside" and "inside" water, drop their nets and wait for the outgoing tide to bring the shrimp into their pockets. Here the line is just outside the entrance to the Calcasieu Ship Channel. It is called...