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...were like boxing’s lighter weight divisions, then Harvard would certainly have weighed in a class above the rest of the Ivy League and the likes of Williams and Amherst. Still, the Crimson would have been a flyweight, as it never quite could pack on that last pound??or capture that last point—and always found itself just below the Bantams...

Author: By Alan G. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Squash Forced To Settle for Second in Nation | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

Some farmers have decided to eliminate these middlemen by forming cooperatives and selling directly to American distributors like “Equal Exchange.” Equal Exchange agrees to buy the fairly traded coffee at $1.26 per pound??$1.41 if it is organically grown. The market price paid by coyotes to farmers fluctuates around 40 cents per pound??the extra dollar goes into the often poverty stricken hands of Latin American, African and Asian coffee farmers...

Author: By Judd B. Kessler, | Title: Coyote Free Coffee | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

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