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...read enough; at my age all I’m doing is confirming my sadness.” Reading, after all, brings him not only to the study of the poetic voices that influence him, but also to the confrontation of political issues that crop up throughout his work, from Roe v. Wade to the war in Iraq...
...features work by Lizi Brown, Michael Bühler-Rose, Liz Cohen, Wendy Jean Hyde, and Christopher Lamberg-Karlovsky. It’s surely a daunting proposition for any emerging artist to share a roof with the likes of Rembrandt and Van Gogh, but this year’s crop largely stands up to the challenge. The stand-out is Lamberg-Karlovsky whose “erasure” and “archival” series explore the issue of memory in diverse ways...
...hectare, compared with $1,200 per hectare. What's more, cannabis is even more lucrative to grow than opium poppies, which yield about $3,600 per hectare. It's also far cheaper to grow cannabis than poppies, requiring little sophisticated cultivation. The report says it is an almost ideal crop for desperately poor farmers, who lack fertilizers and tractors and who need every penny they can squeeze from their land. Because of this, the farmers have not been deterred by a government ban on growing hash. "The high sale price of cannabis and the relatively low costs of cultivation were...
This Isn't OverWhen the military commanders and counternarcotics officials finally agree on what to do with the poppy crop - McChrystal is likely to win that debate - they will confront the next challenge: getting the farmers to eventually grow other crops instead. The last time officials in Kabul tried to get Marjah farmers to switch to wheat cultivation was in 2008, when opium was selling at $75 a kg, a long way down from the peak of $250 a kilo in 2003. Even so, the farmers turned down subsidized wheat seed and fertilizer, believing opium would be more profitable. They...
...that "hardly a single gun was captured by the NATO forces." He believes that many of the Taliban fighters simply moved back from their quarters inside Marjah's mosques and madrasahs to stay with their families. Wherever they are, the insurgents will keep an eye on the poppy crop. Says Jan: "When the trees and fields get greener and bigger, the Taliban will show themselves again." The battle for Marjah is far from over...