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...Friedman has a journalistic alter ego, Atlantic Monthly correspondent and author Robert Kaplan, who saw only gathering gloom and doom as the harvest of the West's Cold War triumph. His influential 1994 essay "The Coming Anarchy" described a world in which the prosperity and stability of the industrialized world is subsumed by mounting anarchy as the collapse of nation states (and their replacement by a combination of transnational corporations and tribal militia), the scarcity of resources, and the globalization of disease and crime accelerate in the vacuum created by the Cold War's end. And where the political class...
...thousands of others are part of a family of regulars who come for grits and home fries, catfish and okra, smothered chicken and peach cobbler. Je's after Sunday Mass is a sight, Newark all dressed up in finery and extended families marching straight from the hallelujah to the harvest...
...along." I never have to ask where are the flowers? Sun? Where are the mothers? Fathers? Where are the old marrieds? Where are the children, "adjudged the leastwise of the land"? Where are the riots? Where are the prophets? Where is the sound "that we are each other's harvest"? I see them in her poems that breathe women in a blaze of upsweeps and backyards and ballads, in her children dancing between urine and violets, in her singing to us between the sleeping and the waking. And as she entered into our 21st century bloodstream, paddling a river...
...network also helps reduce a major anxiety plaguing local farmers. Once a sugarcane crop is ready to harvest, each day's delay reduces its sugar content and the money the farmer can get from a cooperative for his crop. The Pokhale cooperative owns only one harvester, which is usually monopolized by bigger, more influential farmers. But now the harvesting dates for every village and farm are available on the network, and farmers can complain to the cooperative chief if the harvester fails to arrive at the appointed hour. Ghewari, 63, who grows cane in a five-acre field, was quick...
...rejoice in the harvest and thank God for our survival, yet another year, in the vast, dark, and inhospitable North American forest...