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Slow Food movement to address the G8

GLOBAL AND LOCAL
Next summer, delegates from a worldwide effort to preserve and celebrate small-scale and indigenous farming in the face of corporate agribusiness conglomerates will address the very officials who represent the evils of globalization.
By JESSICA RHYS  |  January 05, 2009
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Cash-strapped government

Plus, what to do about Russia, and Obama’s upcoming convention
Most people realize that the nasty economic news is getting nastier.
By EDITORIAL  |  August 20, 2008
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Booked up

Several shelves’ worth of summer reads
Summertime, and the reading is easy.
By BARBARA HOFFERT  |  June 09, 2008
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Jobs with a future

With the job market in flux, how can colleges prepare students for any career?
A fifth/a quarter/a third of all jobs that people will be doing in 15/20/25 years have yet to be conceived, or the job you’re doing now won’t exist in 20 years, or not in the way you do it now.
By F.S. WOLFE  |  April 28, 2008

Another perspective

The view from Mexico on Immigration
Carmen Romero says the idea of immigrating to the United States is “a Mexican obsession,” though the reality of immigration for many is different from the dream.
By AMY LITTLEFIELD  |  April 02, 2008
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The morning after

Hillary is rejuvenated, but perils lie ahead
Democrats and Independents are voting in record numbers.
By EDITORIAL  |  March 05, 2008
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Welcome to Atlantica

Free trade
Big companies in northern New England and eastern Canada have launched another initiative to free themselves from what they consider to be onerous government regulation and oversight.
By KIMBERLY FISCHER  |  February 06, 2008
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New source for savings: outsource the economists

Modest proposals
Outsourcing used to be for textile workers and call-center employees.
By TIM LEHNERT  |  January 31, 2008

Raking over the coals

Letters to the Boston editor, October 19, 2007
Placing Aviva Chomsky’s article on the front page was a wise decision.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS  |  October 17, 2007
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The dirty story behind local energy

Eastern Massachusetts hums comfortably on Colombian coal. But the mines are devastating land and lives in the Guajira peninsula.
It’s hard to imagine that a town as poor as this one could have a slum.
By AVIVA CHOMSKY  |  October 01, 2007
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Damn you, Barack Obama

Win or lose, Obama's small donors may have already brought a revolution in campaign financing
Now that Obama's small contributors have effectively rewritten the history of political-campaign funding, even die-hard cynics are drinking the Kool-Aid.
By AL GIORDANO  |  September 26, 2007
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Neo-hoodoo and street kabuki

Fist and Heel at Concord’s Summer Stages and Kabuki in New York
Tradition: how to preserve it in a globalized modern culture.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL  |  July 24, 2007
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The Boss of It All

Since when do we believe Lars von Trier?
The Boss of It All reflects on the mysteries of identity, responsibility, globalization, and Gambini’s æsthetics of theater.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 30, 2007
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Endangered tongues

We’re not surprised you speak our language
You may have read: the world is getting smaller.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN  |  May 09, 2007
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Bloodless diamonds

Non-violence and rationality reign in the MFA’s ‘African Cinema’
If the Leonardo DiCaprio vehicle Blood Diamond gets remembered for anything, it would be for the attention it’s drawn to the injustice that has risen alongside globalization in Africa.
By BRETT MICHEL  |  February 14, 2007
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Changing concentrations

As the world shrinks, schools expand their majors and programs
Thomas Friedman from the New York Times writes that “the world is flat.” Are you too old for school?: Even at age 30, your brain is different from the average student’s. By Samantha Henig
By SEETHA NARAYAN  |  January 24, 2007

A brief history of shopping



By SARA DONNELLY  |  January 24, 2007
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Unvarnished

In search of authentic Maine
Maine is at a unique crossroads.
By SARA DONNELLY  |  September 27, 2006
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It’s global class war

And Maine is on the front line
Written by a former Mainer, The Global Class War barely mentions Maine, but it explains what is happening economically in our state — as well as in the world.
By LANCE TAPLEY  |  July 06, 2006

World-class listening problem

Politics and other mistakes
Here’s something you won’t want to hear: there’s nothing inherently wrong with property taxes.
By AL DIAMON  |  May 31, 2006

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