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...poised to spur American agriculture to a record $92.3 billion in revenue this year. To top it all off, American farmers are still receiving $13 billion every year in subsidies from the federal government.If that seems strange to you, then you’re not alone. A long list of luminaries ranging from Nancy Pelosi to President Bush have tried to do something to cut the wasteful spending. Farm subsidies are one of those rare issues on which everyone from the staunch free market advocate to the ardent proponent of social justice can see eye to eye. A cursory reading...
...said. “He might not know about these problems if he doesn’t see these e-mails.”But Fowler-Finn did not immediately inform the school committee and the public of the administrative members added to the e-mail list. Walser said “there is no way [the committee] could not have been aware of it,” since the e-mails added to the list were apparently visible in the e-mail heading.Legally, citizen e-mails to the school committee can be a public record and are subject...
...events.Elsewhere on the women’s side, the 4x400-meter relay team of O’Callaghan, sophomore Katie Orchowski, freshman Thea Lee, and senior Erika Geihe pulled in an eighth-place finish with a time of 4:08.32.Co-captain Sally Stanton and classmate Clara Blattler topped the list in the pole vault. Both cleared the 3.50-meter bar, but because Stanton passed in fewer attempts she came away with first place.On the men’s side, sophomore Robert Kenney’s 3:59.46 finish in the 1500-meter run earned him a fourth-place...
...Garin also has a long list of clients from the corporate and philanthropic worlds, as well as advocacy groups like EMILY's List, a political organization that raises money for pro-choice Democratic women candidates. And while he will continue advising other clients, he says it will not present a conflict with his work for the Clinton campaign, as most of his work with corporate clients is on business-to-business issues, not government policies...
...investment in the country and made the U.S. Russia's top foreign investor. In the first nine months of the 2007, U.S. investment in Russia amounted to $8 billion, while direct investment amounted to $3.6 billion, pushing the U.S. third behind the U.K. and the Netherlands in Russia's list of foreign investors. Clearly U.S. corporations are more cautious about investing in Russia than they were eight years ago - which is hardly surprising given Moscow's willingness to trample over even giants like Royal Dutch Shell and British Petroleum in its efforts to restore control over major...