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...enriching local officials. Today China's Communist Party is facing the same old nightmare--rampant abuse of power by officials at all levels and a growing level of discontent among ordinary people over the unaccountability of those who rule them. Every month sees protests by farmers or workers against graft and illegal tax gouging by local officials. President Jiang Zemin fears corruption could mobilize angry masses nationwide against the Communist Party and even bring down the government, and he has issued edicts to crack down on graft...
...anthropomorphic cartoons and such," he says. "I genuinely liked the people I was making fun of; I just couldn't resist making fun of them. I lacked the empathy chip." His sensibility, however coarse, owes a major debt to Charlie Brown. Indeed, Charles Schulz was the first to graft existential adult thoughts into the adorable heads of babes and a beagle, and in the wake of his death some Peanuts fans have eagerly championed the strip's dark side, quoting Schulz's belief that "Happiness is not very funny." Smigel agrees, and while his hooker-loving puppets are just distant...
...rather of powerful metaphors, the fusing of multiple meanings into a few words. Take the title. The Family Orchard refers to a grove of citrus trees in the stories and also alludes to the term "the family tree." An orchard consists of artificially cultivated trees. "People are supposed to graft," a citrus grower tells his sons. "Part of our partnership in creation." This book is an example of the partnership it celebrates...
...There was lots of crime news in the big type too. Over in Utah, a 15-count indictment was handed up against Salt Lake City bid-committee principals Tom Welch and Dave Johnson in connection with the $1.2 million in graft that preceded--led to?--Salt Lake's selection by the International Olympic Committee as host of the 2002 Winter Games. The feds went ballistic on Welch and Johnson because they wouldn't cop a plea to bribing I.O.C. members. The two say they're innocent because schmoozing members at the time wasn't against I.O.C. policy--it was I.O.C...
...hooking hand to arm was the easy part. Getting the improbable graft to do the work of an ordinary hand was another matter. Now, it seems, that hurdle has been surmounted...