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...feared that they were losing the public relations battle and that their federal agricultural subsidies might be at risk. Or maybe they sincerely saw the need for compromise. Says Robert Buker Jr., a senior vice president at U.S. Sugar: "You can't shut down farming, but you can't destroy the environment either. They have to coexist." The growers have offered to put up $120 million toward the cost of pollution control in return for a new arrangement of filtering marshes that would take only 28,000 acres out of production (7,000 less than originally proposed) and supplement them...
...Harvard, fewer places exist where diverse groups come together, threatening to destroy the cross-cutting cleavages that different students might feel. "Cultural societies" have cropped up for every group conceivable, from Irish to Caribbean. At the same time, the organizations that might unite us ideologically are in near-comas...
...philosophy of 'win at all costs' and the attempt by many to make football a high-powered promotion and a money-making business could quickly change its nature and destroy the value of the game," Restic said...
Terrorists destroy not only human lives but the past itself...
...will prove impossible for West to resist. "You've got to understand one thing about Cornel," says a colleague. "There's a part of him that wants to be the next H.N.I.C. It's not just white folks holding him up." Says Cone: "One of the best ways to destroy someone is to expose and promote him. It's very hard to be critical of a system that makes a hero...