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...This summer an unprecedented coalition, running the gamut of the advocacy world from rural development to health to business to the environment, emerged to help Kind and Republican Jeff Flake of Arizona try to shake up the system. Editorials thundered for reform, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco--the city of organic kale and "meat is murder"--vowed to deliver it. The moment seemed ripe for Democrats to challenge the status quo. Agribusiness was steering two-thirds of its campaign donations to Republicans, and just 19 of the 435 congressional districts were vacuuming up half of all subsidies...
...those reasons, Congressmen Kind and Flake proposed an amendment last summer to eliminate no-strings-attached direct payments, end subsidies to the rich, boost conservation funding and create a more targeted safety net for farmers having rough years. Kind thought they had a shot. A similar package had gotten 200 votes in 2002 without such a grand coalition, and this time Democrats--who had spent six years complaining about Republican giveaways to the rich--were calling the shots. Even the Bush Administration supported payment limits. During speeches to farm groups, Johanns kept displaying maps of all the subsidy recipients...
...Opry legend's blond pompadour and rhinestone suits made him a popular hitmaker (Green Green Grass of Home, Skid Row Joe) and influential ambassador, but he was best known for mentoring and performing with Dolly Parton, whom he launched on TV's syndicated 1960-79 Porter Wagoner Show. Last summer Wagoner made a national comeback with the critically acclaimed indie-album Wagonmaster. To promote it, he opened for rock's White Stripes, firing up, for at least one more night, an adoring capacity crowd at Madison Square Garden...
...Parent ’09 and Kristin S. Kim ’09, will showcase Asian designers and aims to raise awareness of the thriving Asian fashion design scene.The idea for “Project East,” which hits the runway tomorrow, was formulated in the summer of 2006 while Parent and Kim were in Korea. “We happened to meet up [while in Korea] and started talking about how we had discovered so many cool Korean designers during our summer there,” Kim says. “We wondered why Asian designers don?...
Sometimes books serve as pathways to the pleasures we are incapable of obtaining in real life: Flying and spells for readers of Harry Potter, hot and easy women for readers of Maxim, and, for me, a good meal. This summer I got my first taste of financial independence—and of being broke. I realized that exorbitant meat prices meant that I was going to become a de facto vegetarian, a horrible fate for someone whose truck back home bore the bumper sticker, “I didn’t claw...