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More about Better South
BETTER SOUTH – If you want to learn more about the Center for a Better South and how it is pushing a new Agenda for a Better South, check it out here. Be sure to take a look at its policy guides to progressive tax reform and environmental ideas.
Great story in the Times
Over the last week, there’s been a great series in The New York Times about one of its reporters who was kidnapped and held by the Taliban in Pakistan for more than seven months. The reporter, David Rohde, eventually escaped. It’s fascinating. Read here.
Coincidentally
COINCIDENTALLY>> For some reason, the Winter 2006 issue of the Oxford American magazine just came in the mail in a special envelope. Interestingly, it included a story about 10 new emerging Southern writers. Oddly, a Sunday story in The New York Times magazine about writer Padgett Powell suggested that most current American writing was dull.
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