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...pretty great place for a liberal. Almost half Hispanic, with a Catholic Church that still remembers liberation theology and an Anglo community that still remembers the 1960s, Santa Fe likes to flaunt its status as one of the most progressive towns in the country. Two years ago, Santa Fe struck again. It passed a municipal living wage of $8.50, the highest in the country. With a seven to one vote by the City Council, one in six Santa Feans got a raise. It was a good day. Since Harvard started paying its workers a living wage five years ago, living...
...those tiny outposts that the horror is still being uncovered. The quake struck as children were in their morning classes, in shabbily built schools that crumbled under the first shock waves, crushing thousands of boys and girls. Four days after the quake, a teacher named Said Rasool traveled down from his village to seek help in Balakot, his cream-colored trousers still stained with the blood of his dead students. He wandered from one cluster of soldiers to another, pleading that they help him try to dig out his students. But there was still too much work to be done...
KASHMIR IN RUINS The deadly earthquake struck the heart of the rugged, war-torn area hotly contested by India and Pakistan. Now both countries are scrambling to get aid to remote villages...
...Copyright for most of the samples on the album had not been cleared for use. "If we wanted to actually release it in America," says Parton, "then we really had to have somebody that could clear it for us." So despite Parton's "healthy suspicion" of major labels, Memphis struck a deal with Sony BMG, and this month, Thunder, Lightning, Strike was reissued with extra tracks in Europe and released, via Columbia, in the U.S. So has life changed for Parton and his bandmates? Well, they've given up their day jobs to concentrate on teamwork. "We were all running...
...that you could really do without.” It seems Park’s good taste is widespread: last week, “Were-Rabbit” topped the U.S. box office, a feat that can’t possibly go unnoticed by the DreamWorks execs. Sadly, tragedy struck the very next day, as a warehouse fire destroyed almost all of the figurines Park had been developing since the eighties. What this means for the future of Park’s company, Aardman Animations, is unclear. Park has already started work on full-length CGI feature on sewer vermin...