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...that way in the Bush family. Just when the media and political power schemers figure the father and son have their heads together in some shadowy corner dividing up the world's leaders for telephone pleas, they talk family, dogs and how the bass are doing in the Crawford pond. Thursday night, No. 41 was off in Canada hunting pheasants with friends, including former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, a deliberate response to No. 43's national call to keep life as normal as possible. Bush and son are both hunters, yet another bond of sorts between these...
...that way in the Bush family. Just when the media and political power schemers figure the father and son have their heads together in some shadowy corner dividing up the world's leaders for telephone pleas, they talk family, dogs and how the bass are doing in the Crawford pond. Thursday night, No. 41 was off in Canada hunting pheasants with friends, including former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, a deliberate response to No. 43's national call to keep life as normal as possible. Bush and son are both hunters, yet another bond of sorts between these...
...meters down, the earth turns black and hard. The coal is tantalizingly easy to reach; so are the lethal pockets of gas that cause explosions or asphyxiate workers. Zhang's husband, Li Zhenhua, had worked for a decade in a cluster of small, illegal mines near his Duck Pond village. Whenever an accident claimed lives, the pit would be ordered to close?but another would invariably open not far away. Much of the illegal mining is done at night to avoid government monitors. In any case, the inspectors don't have to look very hard. The earth around Duck Pond...
...Those are precisely the most dangerous ones: small, unregistered and free to operate without safety equipment and supervision. In the wake of the Duck Pond accident, the government closed more than 130 mines in the area, leaving only three officially open. But Guizhou's earth has far more coal to give. Zhang's 15-year-old son, Li Enyong, will likely join the night brigade soon. With his father dead, the family no longer has enough money to send the boy to school. "What else is there for him to do?" asks his mother, her hand resting...
...need to know we are seeing a horse or car? And in Porcellino's case, it perfectly reflects the almost Zen quality of his writing. At the end of "Mountain Song" a muskrat (scarcely more than an oval with a line at the back) slips into a pond. Wordlessly, Porcellino then draws several panels of vaguely abstract images that could be either details of the pond or even increasingly distant images of the pond. The beauty is that both ideas are right. In the last panel he asks, "What is this world" and we share his wonder...