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...fizzled out. Seereeram was distracted when a partner in his consulting firm was disgraced in a separate financial scandal. Seereeram was turning into a Dickensian figure: the aggrieved claimant in a never-ending dispute over money. This was a character he knew well: Seereeram's father, a sugar-cane farmer, spent 15 years fighting a law that required farmers to surrender a percentage of their profits to the sugar farmers' trade association...
...Heston for the presidency. He likes guns. He may hear echoes of his youth in the words of a Michigan militia member: "It's an American responsibility to be armed. If you're not armed, you're not responsible." The director is a little spooked by James Nichols, tofu farmer and brother of Oklahoma City bomber Terry, who shows Moore the loaded Magnum .44 under his pillow and points it at his own temple. Nichols stops short of saying people have the right to weapons-grade plutonium. After all, he sagely notes, "there's wackos out there...
...linked to the plot to overthrow the A.N.C., was discovered at a farm some 170 km north of Johannesburg. And 3 weeks before that an abandoned truck filled with arms, ammunition and explosives was found in South Africa's North West province. Police say a meeting of the Farmers' Force, the right-wing splinter group suspected of being behind the plot, was planned in the area. But the gathering was called off when members learned that the police were on to them. A local Afrikaans physician, Lets Pretorius, was arrested - the truck was registered in his name - for alleged contravention...
...Before he finally slipped into freedom via Hong Kong, Zhang survived for almost a year disguised as "Old Fourth Wang," a peasant farmer and fisherman in a remote border area. There, he planted rice, fished carp, hunted water deer and encountered a nation where lives remain rooted in nature and clan and authentic interactions between human beings. People knew his true identity, and didn't care. Zhang, in turn, came to admire his "kind and generous neighbors." The most remarkable passages in this memoir are those that explore this "unsanctioned" China. Part of the tragedy for Zhang and fellow exiles...
...TIME: How did you find your faith? Zhang: When I was on the run in northeast China, I found my way to a village, and came to hide in the house of a Christian farmer ... He would ask me to read the Bible to him. His Bible was handwritten?transcribed with a fountain pen. I read him the Gospel of John. He treated me well, shared with me the little he had?even killed his chicken for me to eat ... It was at that time that I started believing there was a God in this world. Because if there wasn...