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...Thakare a pond long before now. But small farmers like Thakare have been neglected for much of the past three decades - and not only in India. Throughout the developing world, agriculture was the also-ran of the global economy. Governments equated economic progress with steel mills and shoe factories. While urban centers thrived and city dwellers got rich, hundreds of millions of farmers remained mired in poverty. Agriculture in many developing nations stagnated...
...copies and made her a darling of the literary establishment in the 1980s. The critics compared her to Faulkner and Steinbeck, because what she wrote about so well and so convincingly was the back-broken underclass in Maine, the people who work, like Carolyn once did, in shoe factories or scrubbing hospital floors or picking potatoes. Her characters watch helplessly, like Carolyn did, as children die from lack of healthcare. Indeed, Carolyn and Michael Chute lost a baby in 1982 after the local hospital refused to treat the complications from her pregnancy. (See the All-TIME 100 Novels...
...Rosie O'Donnell and George Clooney. As well as, oh, about 2 billion children. Sales at the Colorado-based company climbed from a meager $24,000 in 2002 to more than $847 million in 2007. When Crocs went public in February 2006, it raised $208 million - the largest shoe-firm IPO in market history...
...part, Crocs has been steadily moving into other styles and materials over the past two years, from high-heeled shoes with a velvet finish to a khaki houndstooth men's loafer, both made out of resin. The hope: that a parent outfitting their kids in clogs will pick up a few more. "It's about persuading people to put the shoe on. We need to continue to evolve [our shoes]. And sometimes that might mean looking nothing like a Croc," says Duerden...
Whenever there is a reigning majority, a struggling minority fights to makes its case heard. Such is the case with the current political status quo. In response to Nafees A. Syed’s article titled “Republican Shoe-Throwers” (op-ed, Sept. 24), I believe several misleading points were made concerning the image of Republican representation in this country...