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...ladybug out of harm's way. During his travels Gao crosses paths with Akanemaru, a sculptor on his way to visit a temple. Akanemaru shares his campfire, a kindness that Gao returns with a hateful crippling of the "proud" sculptor's arm. From here the book switches back and forth between the lives of both men. They will meet twice more, fulfilling separate but strangely parallel destinies...
...Czech Republic, for example, and the reason Mexican fans recently egged on their Under-21 team with chants of "Osama, Osama" had everything to do with the fact that their rivals on the night were the Under-21s of the United States. England-Argentina clashes will always call forth bitter memories of their 1982 war over the Falkands Islands, for example, and a bitterly contested World Cup qualifier between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969 sparked a brief military confrontation between the two countries...
...same way. To be fair, Democratic interest groups like MoveOn.org have also put trashy ads on the air, but the idea that the President of the United States would put his name on such unrelenting sludge is unprecedented. The Bush-Cheney campaign and the Republican National Committee (R.N.C.) send forth a daily tide of tone-deaf, derisive and sarcastic e-mails, reminiscent of the graceless vitriol that issued from the desperate Al Gore campaign in 2000. The naming of John Edwards occasioned an immediate spew-he was called a "disingenuous, unaccomplished liberal." The President himself attacked Edwards within 24 hours...
...deeply flawed human being. Not only was he sometimes deceitful and duplicitous, but he was also a racist slaveholder who never freed most of his slaves. Certainly, however, we should be able to admit these flaws in this timebound 18th century figure without denigrating the democratic ideals he set forth...
...after he was arrested? I told him right away that I was writing the book. He said, "I'm proud of you. I hope you make a million dollars." I visited him in prison. We had lunch several times when he was out on bail. We wrote back and forth. He always wanted me to say "I know you didn't do it." And I couldn't, so I just avoided the question...