Word: rich
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...poised years later to fail a second time as he tried to farm his remaining acreage. But in the early '90s, he found salvation in an unlikely place: a small but passionate group of environmentally minded Chicago shoppers who happened to be on the hunt for a rural farmer rich in organic produce...
Writing about rich white people is no way to make it as a novelist anymore. You're just one Fitzgerald among many. Rich black people, though --now there's a subject you can build a brand on. Stephen Carter is a Yale law professor turned novelist whose first book--The Emperor of Ocean Park, a huge best seller--confirmed what many had long suspected: that there are in fact people who are rich and black. His second novel, New England White (Knopf; 558 pages), expands on those initial findings...
...their people, provide public health or control their territory--and thus export a swarm of pathologies, from jihadist terrorism to loose nukes to bird flu. It's no surprise that Edwards and Obama want to boost foreign aid. They believe the poor world threatens the U.S. more than the rich...
...importance of capturing a resounding majority to assist the popular Sarkozy with what they call long-overdue reforms - changes they accuse the left of being too ideologically deluded to accept. In reply to leftist accusations that rolling back welfare would penalize the less wealthy to the benefit of the rich, Fillon mocked his rivals as "moralizing impostors." He also smeared leftists opposing the right's promises to curb immigration as those who "no longer dare love France." Many UMP candidates in lower-profile positions than Fillon have been using even stronger language to bash leftist contenders as unpatriotic...
...Catholicism, it is global, uniting varied ethnicities in an overarching understanding of faith. But Anglicans have forgone Catholicism's authoritarianism, staking their unity on a continual conversation and mutual respect. The sharp debate over homosexuality crystallizes a challenge facing everyone in an uneasy, newly wired world: Can the North--rich and imbued with an ethos of individual rights--and the poorer South find a constructive interdependence? Speaking to TIME on a cool May morning, Williams insisted, "I don't think schism is inevitable." But he has his work cut out to stop...