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Monthly Archives: December 2004

shared giving

Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Buy Generously: So Belle and I are donating the humble proceeds from our Amazon Associates Account for the quarter. So far that comes to almost exactly $100. A nice round number to pony up for starters. Given that I have resolved to donate x, where x = my commisions, you might consider buying some Amazon [...]

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cherry picking

Tuesday, December 28, 2004

The New York Times > International > Americas > The Food Chain | Survival of the Biggest: Supermarket Giants Crush Central American Farmers: Not the most accurate headline. The nut of the story is not that peasants are being crushed beneath the remorseless wheels of industry — that’s not news — but that some have [...]

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too many books, not enough readers?

Monday, December 27, 2004

Let Them Eat Prose (Harpers.org): Wanted, a reading public. This is what the publishers say is needed—that is, serious readers, those who care enough about books to buy them, own them, and really possess themselves of their contents. This is what the writers say is needed—the writers who are becoming almost more numerous than the [...]

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