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...which in the corporal world is so elusive as to often be downright fictitious. Though the scenery undoubtedly changes with the century, (by societal standards, "making it" is no longer measured by indoor plumbing and a fashionable buggy, but by a Mercedes and a company in the Valley--Silicon, of course), the latent content of the Dream remains the same. It's a rags-to-riches story, where ambition and fate collide in the Promised Land and instantly propel some lucky Nobody to the status of a Very Wealthy Somebody...
...During these years, Bellow worked with migrant farm laborers in the San Joaquin Valley. He was an attorney to civil rights activist Cesar Chavez, who was fighting to unionize migrant Mexican farm workers...
Joseph and Nereciana reinhabited a familial plot in Rwankogoto and began the process of building their dirt-floor, four-room hut from bamboo, reeds and mud. The house, perched on a hillside overlooking a fertile valley, catches morning sun and stores the warmth all day within its thick stucco walls. They built a thatched-roof outhouse, a rabbit hutch and a chicken coop. They cleared four acres of farmland and sowed their first crop: manioc, beans, peanuts, pineapples and sweet potatoes. Her sisters lent Nereciana pots and empty jerricans that she filled with bananas, yeast and hops to ferment banana...
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...have a bad rap from history. It doesn't always have to mean gulags. It can mean fun. What if today's computer-company maxims were propagated with the posters of mid-century? The wags at Modern Humorist (at www.modernhumorist.com this spring) plan to distribute these posters throughout Silicon Valley...