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...reassignment of property. The politics are plausible, the lead actors charming enough, and it's nice to see Palestine by sunset. But in its making, this is an all-too-familiar melodrama. Ordinary is the last word one would think to apply to a film from such a volcanic land, but it's the one that fits here...
...Texas Border Coalition, which includes just about every mayor and local Chamber of Commerce in the 1,200-mile Rio Grande Valley, accuses Chertoff of seizing land to build the fence without first negotiating a fair price. TBC's complaint, filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C., also alleges that the Department of Homeland Security may be favoring wealthy landowners by routing the fence away from their property. "I puzzled a while over why the fence would bypass the industrial park and go through the city park," Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster, the coalition chairman, says in the suit...
...Compounding the problem is that there is no simple way to run a fence through these towns. In some places, families own property that actually straddles the line, a legacy of Spanish land grants older than Texas statehood. A new barrier might cut these spreads in two. Other properties run right up to the line. The University of Texas at Brownsville, for example, could find its campus golf course and part of the outfield of its baseball park amputated...
...walks to a dusty lot near the river. "This was a piece of land meant for development," he says. "Now there is no hope." A group of survivors has gathered for lunch under a tent. They have come from the mountains above the town. That they have chosen to relocate to the wasteland of Yingxiu hints at the destruction in their villages. Gesturing at the rich lunch of beer and roast pork, Zhang Jian, 34, says, "The truth is, we have nothing...
...direct payments and production, allowing farmers to better follow market signals. A progressive reduction in farm subsidies will be accompanied by shifting the money saved to protect and promote traditional family farms. And the plans call for an end to the so-called set-aside rules that requiring some land to be kept out of production...