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...needs. These men and women, almost all subsistence or small-plot cash-crop farmers, have been structurally adjusted half to death. Though Adams points to progress--51% of Tanzanians now survive on $1 a day or less, down from 65% in the mid-1980s--his statistic makes Tanzanian analysts laugh bitterly, because it misses the fact that everything in a farmer's life costs more today. Currency devaluation and the elimination of agricultural subsidies doubled and quadrupled fertilizer prices, according to a study by the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Farmers couldn't borrow, because short-term interest rates in rural areas...
...asked, do I keep my baby from getting expelled from nursery school? "Next time," he said, "offer an alternative. Teach a silly word instead, like baloney or hogwash. If a two-year-old says dagnabbit, people are bound to laugh." But when I tried this at the supermarket the next day, Clementine began to sing, "Dad's rabbit is an asko, asko, asko." No one in Condiments laughed. While we were not exactly asked to leave, I felt it wise to limit my purchases to 15 items to qualify for express checkout...
...tolerate Medwed's sometimes grating style-her metaphors are either clichs (the rejected wife is compared to numerous broken down appliances) or are awkwardly creative ("She's followed the blue equivalent of the yellow brick road and has landed at her own fully personalized Oz")-you many get a laugh out of the ridiculous situations she writes about. Anyone in search of a thoughtful character study or emotional investment will come up short, though, as Medwed overtly explains everything that the reader could otherwise conclude on his own. Host Family has an interesting premise, but never takes...
...Help me Diva. I have no opening zinger. My readers will think I'm lame. Suppose they start reading the Indy? Or god forbid, the Lampoon? Make me laugh. Plus, you owe me for taking you to Roka for that wafu steak...
...serving our customers' needs...O.K., the truth: if you just bet your career on a Web play (as I did, leaving TIME a few weeks ago), the last thing you want to deal with is reality. "Please let the market hold," said a colleague last week with a shaky laugh...