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Some liberals criticize Hillary Clinton because, having spent the bulk of her career in the conservative era, she is too cautious. She lives in terror of a latent conservatism that no longer exists in the land. The country has moved left, they say, and Barack Obama is the candidate of audacious liberal hope...
...George Ducharme will be displaying a photographic study of his collection of katsina dolls in the Holyoke Center Exhibition Space. The dolls’ carvings are meant to represent katsina spirits, benevolent ancestral beings whom the Hopi believe can bring fertility and health to their native arid land. The carvings are given to children to teach them the spirits’ stories and about Hopi culture in general—and the ones shown in the exhibit serve much the same purpose.At first glance, Ducharme’s photographs are strikingly bold, reminiscent of finely detailed portraits. The magnification...
...campaigns the last three weeks - and Clinton, too. Trying out a new slogan, Obama said Super Tuesday proved, "this time can be different." "What began as a whisper has now swelled to a chorus that cannot be ignored; that will not be deterred; that will ring out across this land as a hymn that will heal this nation, repair this world, and make this time different than all the rest." At least in his prose, Obama doesn't sound like an underdog...
...pump is officially a flood-control project for poor Delta communities, but more than four-fifths of the economic benefits calculated by the Corps would go to flood-prone farmers who already collect gigantic subsidies to grow soybeans on marginal land. And the federal government is on the hook for the entire $220 million bill, because Mississippi Republican Senators Thad Cochran and Trent Lott slipped through a provision waiving local cost-sharing rules for the project...
...farming co-ops. COMACO agrees to buy their produce at a higher-than-normal price, and the organization markets the products to Zambian stores, under the brand name "It's Wild!" If villagers agree to join COMACO, they aren't allowed to poach, and they pledge to protect the land, eschewing slash-and-burn farming techniques. COMACO checks up on its members - villages that see elevated poaching rates, or evidence of erosion, earn visits from Lewis's staff. "If you do certain things, we'll provide certain things," says Lewis. "We work together, and see if we're all better...