Word: farmers
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...while we are passing La Guira, something recklessly symbolic happens. At the bottom of a small valley, there is a split second when a huge, bulbous green army truck passes us, heading in the other direction. At the same instant, we are passing on our right a straw-hatted farmer on horseback and, to our left, a woman on a bicycle. Symbolism contained: each of our vehicles represents a different element of what makes Cuba Cuba. The bicycle (1) is the Cubans' resourcefulness and symbiosis with their communist brethren (about a million bikes were donated by the Chinese, decades...
...guru is a handsome, 40-year-old Highlander named Alasdair MacRae, widely regarded as the most dangerous of all "dangerous men"--the insider's term for virtuoso sheepdog handlers. The son of a tenant farmer, MacRae is a newfangled sort of celebrity. In centuries past, those who handled sheepdogs were known as shepherds, and their occupation was so humble that many fled to America to escape it. These days, however, competitive sheepherding ranks among the fastest-growing outdoor sports in the U.S. Fifteen years ago, perhaps a dozen sheepdog trials were held each year; now there are more than...
...Drew Miriam E. Droller Alexandra B. duPont Brent W. Dusing Katherine D. Earls Hetty B. Eisenberg Fareed A. El-Amin Courtney E. Ellis Stephanie L. Ellis Lillian J. Epstein Sam Erman Valeria N. Escobari Kevin C. Etten Quincy R. Evans M. Jake Ewart Ewurama E. Ewusi-Mensah Alice H.S. Farmer David A. Fahrenthold Lilian V. Faulhaber Sameera Fazili John Fedele David P. Feliciano Michael B. Fertik Summer L. Finell Luke Fischbeck Allison M. FitzGerald Kara E. Flavin Ross J. Fleischman Leah C. Fletcher Elizabeth J. Fontana Alysson R. Ford David W. Foster Geoffrey A. Fowler Julia A. Fowler Jason...
...will go. He refuses to make the hollow gesture of publishing an apology to maintain his position at the university. Aimless after his resignation, he decides to visit his daughter Lucy. She lives by herself on an isolated smallholding in the Eastern Cape that she shares with a black farmer, Petrus, in a farmhouse that previously housed a hippie commune to which she belonged. David and Lucys relationship is cordial but distant, and her choice to live off the land seems to be a calculated rejection of his intellectual, urban life. Her decision is informed by a refusal to live...
...find that the personality of the farmer trickles down to the product," Gurdal says...