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...that's the case, I guess I can't blame Starbucks, big as it's grown, for wanting to land on the bigger side of that divide. Nor can I come up with a better suggestion for them if they want to improve their standing in the market. But ask me in a hour, after I've had my third pot of coffee...
...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’t farm at all simply because they own land that was once used for agriculture. It’s also not just struggling farmers who benefit from the government’s programs. The current farm bill allows farmers with incomes up to $2.5 million per year to collect federal dollars; in 2001, 73 percent of subsidies went...
...veterans are a loose rabble of violent protesters - some veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, some born after independence in 1980 - who aligned themselves with Mugabe in return for his support of their land seizures. On Saturday a few hundred of them paraded through downtown Harare, unmolested by riot police, and noisily demanded loyalty to Mugabe. That came after raids by the security services on a hotel room used as an office by M.D.C. and the arrest of two Western journalists accused of working without accreditation (something they are routinely refused) on Thursday night. M.D.C. secretary general Tendai Biti reacted...
...country. Just where those bastions are located is now all too obvious in the results posted on the sides of polling stations across Zimbabwe. "Our guys voted Zanu-PF, which was a disappointment," said the South Africa-based brother of one white farmer who has held onto his land in northern Zimbabwe. "But in hindsight, it's a blessing in disguise. The next-door farm voted M.D.C., and those guys are pretty worried...
...while average life expectancy has plunged to 34 for men and 37 for women. Mugabe had tried to deflect attention from his own failings by championing the confiscation and redistribution of white-owned farms - the legacy of a colonial past that had left the lion's share of arable land in the hands of Zimbabwe's white minority - but this only deepened the crisis: The pick of the confiscated farms went to the President's cronies, and the country that had once been the bread-basket of southern Africa was suddenly no longer able to feed itself...