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Your industry is often accused of being damaging to women, yet you assert that you are an active feminist. Could you clarify this position? Thayne Stoddard NEW HAVEN, CONN...
...quite. The pomegranates I enjoyed were shipped as part of a USAID-funded Alternative Livelihoods program. The idea, explains Loren Stoddard, head of USAID's Alternative Development and Agriculture program in Afghanistan, is to restore "some of the old trade routes that were broken." Since the Taliban regime fell six years ago, USAID has helped plant more than a million pomegranate trees, Stoddard claims, and this year Afghan farmers harvested between 33,000 and 44,000 tons (30,000 and 40,000 metric tons) of the fruit, of which some 1,102 tons (1,000 metric tons) were flown...
...that said, pomegranate exports this year will bring in about $1 million for Afghanistan, a blip compared to the more than $1 billion that poppies will earn. Stoddard says that farmers who manage to export their fruit can make as much as poppy farmers per acre - around $1,600 to $2,000 per year. The problem is that most farmers are not selling for export, and earn just a few hundred dollars per acre a year from fruit. That keeps poppies looking pretty attractive...
...veteran, Pierce became president in 1983. Though he ran the network during the 1970s when it climbed to first place in the prime-time ratings race, Pierce also presided over ABC's recent slump to third place. In an effort to reverse that slide, Pierce last November appointed Brandon Stoddard, who headed the company's motion-picture operations, president of ABC Entertainment. He is expected to keep that post...
Still, new ABC Entertainment President Brandon Stoddard insists that the network will not cut corners in trying to reconstruct a winning prime-time schedule. "We've got to protect what goes on screen," says Stoddard, 49, who was named programming chief last November after running ABC's mini-series and theatrical-films operations, "because what goes on the screen will make us succeed or fail." The network has ordered 27 pilots for potential fall series, more than either of its two rivals. Lucille Ball will star in a new sitcom, and other prospective series include a sci-fi drama based...