Word: lands
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...Source” focused on hip-hop in all its aspects, from DJing to fashion choices. Its “Unsigned Hype” column profiled up-and-coming artists who had yet to land a record deal. The Notorious B.I.G., Eminem, DMX, Common, and 50 Cent are just a few artists whose careers were established through the feature...
...week at the Honan-Allston Library to set up a schedule of bi-monthly meetings for the rest of the semester. The mayor announced the formation of the task force in January, charging 17 community members with coordinating neighborhood response to the University’s plans for its land in Allston. “These dedicated residents and business leaders will serve the city and their community to make sure that this institutional master plan process is done right, with the community’s needs incorporated,” said Mayor Thomas M. Menino in a statement...
...CRITICIZED SOME INDIGENOUS LEADERS FOR TREATING ABORIGINES LIKE "MUSEUM PIECES." Some of them are pretty hypocritical - they attack me about my views on (Aboriginal land) ownership and I say, Do you own your own home? They usually say yes. I think they've lost touch a bit with the ordinary lives of people. But I get off the train in Redfern and walk to my office, and it confronts me every day. Aboriginal people say to me, At least you're here so we can give you a spray - others we never...
When it comes to the war on drugs, Morales is just a realist: he defends the right of Bolivians to make a decent living, something already quite hard in the so-called “developing” latitudes. Poor peasants with few acres of land grow coca because of basic Smithian economics: the market equilibrium price is far higher than other crops like coffee or soy. Washington’s “Apocalypse Now”-like burning of fields might work in areas with violent seditious guerrillas like Colombia’s FARC, but in Bolivia, aerial...
...When receiving his well-deserved Nobel Prize, Colombian auteur Gabriel García Márquez described the ironies and solitudes of the land where unbelievably, “El Dorado” used to appear in maps until just over a century ago. The surreal waters of Latin America reveal two very different paths forward and today’s horizon acquires the sadly familiar shape of uncertainty. One of those paths tries to materialize El Dorado, in the form of fossil fuels rather than gold and further vanquishing democratic institutions. The other is a harder path to follow...