African-American farmers in trouble: Leslie Goffe reports on the tribulations of African-American farmers in 'God's Own Country'. Harlem is nowhere. (Diaspora: Blacks in USA).
It is not just in Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa that whites and blacks are in conflict over land. In the United States, African-Americans are in a life and death struggle with the American government over the future of black farmers. A dying breed, African-American farmers are...

You're invited!
A major event is nearing and you're invited to participate! ASAE will celebrate its 100th birthday in just a few years. We'll be reviewing with pride the achievements of the past century and sharpening our vision as to what the years ahead hold for ASAE and the profession. And...

Bush's war economy.
When the Commerce Department announced that the economy grew at a torrid 7.2 percent in the third quarter, President Bush cheered and some Democrats gulped. Both reactions were premature. The Bush economy is not likely to sustain itself. Nor does the uptick compensate, in any significant way,...

Save Our Homes Act includes appraiser coercion provision; receives industry support.
The Save Our Homes Act, introduced by Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., October 16, is aimed at addressing the rampant problem of predatory lending in the United States and calls for licensed and certified appraisers to be used in appraisals of "high cost" loans. The bill, H.R. 3322, would also...

From the editor.
Life, it appears, involves a series of things lost and things gained. There are times when events, occurrences, and collective efforts imply both at the same time. And so in this issue of Americas a species saved, an industry revived, a symbol recorded and destroyed, the photographic record of...

Privatization in the Ancient Near East and Classical World
Privatization in the Ancient Near East and Classical World. Edited by MICHAEL HUDSON and BARUCH A. LEVINE. Peabody Museum Bulletin, vol. 5; The International Scholars Conference on Ancient Near Eastern Economies, vol. 1. Cambridge, Mass.: PEABODY MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY, 1996. Pp. 308. $25 (paper). This...

A Requiem for the American Village. (Book Reviews).
A Requiem for the American Village. By Paul K. Conkin. American Intellectual Culture. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c. 2000. Pp. xvi, 207. $30.00, ISBN 0-8476-9736-3.) Paul Conkin, one of the few intellectual historians ever to preside over the Southern Historical Association,...

ARGENTINA: PRESIDENT NESTOR KIRCHNER ORDERS MILITARY AND FEDERAL POLICE OVERHAUL.
Nestor Kirchner took office May 25, Argentina's sixth president in 18 months. With ten days, he had set in motion one of the most extensive overhauls of the leadership of the armed forces and the Federal Police in recent Argentine history. "I have a dream to propose...

Move over, Charles Keating.
Mother Teresa called him Charlie, as in, "How is my friend Charlie Keating?" That was the Calcutta matron-saint's first question to Senator Dennis DeConcini when they met. To her, Keating was the devout Catholic who had given her a $1.4 million donation. To most Americans, Charlie is a crook....

Chattanooga on a roll: from America's dirtiest city to one of its greenest.
"Chattanooga," proclaims a 1924 promotional brochure whose cover features artistically rendered belching smokestacks, "is a divine masterpiece in the making." Unfortunately, the roaring fires of this industrial riverfront city came to symbolize something other than progress. By 1969, just before the first Earth Day, the Environmental Protection Agency had bestowed...