week in review
Oct. 23rd, 2003 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jfbOnly two things of interest in the Week in Review section:
A piece on the pope's decision to grow old in public.
An editorial about cotton farmers in Lubbock, Texas, part of an ongoing series "focusing on the damaging impact that American, European and Japanese agricultural subsidies and trade barriers have on farmers in developing nations."
A piece on the pope's decision to grow old in public.
It is a gripping sight, inspiring to some people and uncomfortable for others, and it is the result of an unusual combination of personal motivations, pastoral responsibilities and the special circumstances of his office. It also defies convention and expectation in societies where old age is often venerated but infirmity is usually concealed. Many famous people elect to be remembered as younger and more physically vibrant, and they leave the stage when they can no longer stride briskly across it.
An editorial about cotton farmers in Lubbock, Texas, part of an ongoing series "focusing on the damaging impact that American, European and Japanese agricultural subsidies and trade barriers have on farmers in developing nations."
