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...kind of rootless, temporary opinions which are favorable to the Civic Platform." As for Tusk himself, says Bednarz, "So far, he hasn't shown anything." PIS supporters, by contrast, he says, "are devout. They go to church and they value patriotism. PIS gives them these values without promising a pie...
...won’t go without a fight, and the deeply ingrained subsidy programs will require a struggle to dismantle. Farming has a particularly strong valence in our national consciousness. The image of the courageous yeoman farmer, rising at dawn to milk the cows seems as American as apple pie or corn-based ethanol. As Ralph Grossi, president of the American Farmland Trust, told the Wall Street Journal, farmers are perceived as “hard working, salt of the earth, a core part of our culture.” Perhaps this sentiment, combined with the political clout of farming...
...from $5 billion in 1995 to $38 billion in 2005 and is expected to top $100 billion by 2010, thanks to investors like Richard Branson and George Soros, GE and BP, Ford and Shell, Cargill and the Carlyle Group. Renewable fuels has become one of those motherhood-and-apple-pie catchphrases, as unobjectionable as the troops or the middle class...
Still, high-profile departures like theirs could lead fresh talent to think twice about signing to one of the majors. And persuading established artists to stick around is especially tricky when labels are asking for a bigger slice of the revenue pie. Traditionally, when record companies signed an artist, they bought into the promise of an album; an act's other sources of cash - its concerts, say, or merchandise sales - weren't any of the label's business. But now, with album sales plummeting, music companies are chasing juicier income from touring and branded goods. Part of that revenue stream...
Last Saturday, I was offered a piece of pizza from a vegan friend. It didn’t have cheese on it. But who was I to judge? And actually, it was pretty delicious. Not as good as a true pie, the kind with added fat and protein, but the vegan version was still damn tasty. Last week, I went to Cambridge 1, ordered the flatbread with mushrooms, inhaled my half, and then started in on my date’s. I can’t say I am a frequenter of ’Noch?...