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Cheap foreign food can change appetites, and attitudes. As Europeans develop a taste for other peoples' cuisine, they are asking why billions of euros should be funneled to their own farmers, particularly when the biggest recipients of Europe's largesse are not honest yeomen toiling to make ends meet, but rich landowners like Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles...
...bipartisan farm bills that Congress passes every five to seven years reflect the power and savvy of the farm lobby, which parlays cue-the-violins stereotypes of struggling yeomen into giveaways to the planter class of the South and Great Plains. In reality, the top 10% of subsidized farmers collect nearly three-quarters of the subsidies, for an average of almost $35,000 per year. The bottom 80% average just $700. That's worth repeating: most farmers, especially the small farmers whose steadfast family values and precarious family finances are invoked to justify the programs, get little or nothing...
...former professor of music Elliot Forbes ’40, now deceased, has created a legacy of confusion.“Forbes fails to mention the two productions at the Congregational-Presbyterian Church in Cambridge—‘Princess Ida’ and ‘Yeomen of the Guard’—which were the real, immediate forerunners of the HRG&SP,” Forbes writes. “In those productions, most of the people who would put on ‘Ruddigore’—which Forbes doesn?...
...Patience”; and D. Steve Garlick ’60, Jay L. Banks ’75, and Margery A. Hellmold Stone ’83 will put on a multi-generational performance of “Temptation Trio” from the “The Yeomen of the Guard.”ENDOWING A LEGACYEmma B. Katz ’06, coordinator of the anniversary events, says that the celebrations are intended to get alumni involved with HRG&SP again as well as to awaken excitement about the group’s performances among current students...
...says Charlie I. Miller ’08, a board member of HRGSP, adding that the performances usually draw 50-100 people. The reprise will contain six Gilbert and Sullivan favorites, including a couple from “Ruddigore” and “The Yeomen Of the Guard.” Instead of an orchestra, Pedro Kaawaloa ’05 will accompany on piano.“Arts First is totally amazing because you don’t really realize how much art is on this campus until you cram it into one insane weekend...