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...This week, though, it's more of Round Two of Bush's blackmail-the-legislator tour, in which he takes the stump in the home state of an influential (and wavering) senator or representative and urges cheering crowds to write or call said senator/representative in support of Bush...
...kinds of people. They bring up issues that should be addressed. The election has been a good cleansing process." And then Museveni proceeds to get a few things off his chest. "Besigye is suffering from AIDS," he says, a remark he has delivered a number of times on the stump. "And Winnie is just a nasty lady." Besigye refuses to address that particular accusation. (He and Byanyima have a son Anselm, born two months after they married.) As for Byanyima, last year she floated the idea of running for President herself. After she chose not to, her husband declared...
...public in 1974 after an ethnic Korean gunman from Japan shot the wife of dictator Park Chung Hee. Called danji (finger chopping) the gesture was immortalized by independence fighter Ahn Jung Geun, who in 1909 swore to assassinate Japanese political leaders, writing the oath in blood from the stump of his severed finger. (Japan's yakuza also cut off their own digits, but that's usually to atone for blunders.) Cho's idol is Kim Du Han, the legendary gangster who battled the yakuza during Japan's colonization of the peninsula: "He was 100% nationalist." Cho is helping the families...
...they bear - not especially apple-shaped, but resembling ancient gnomes, or a leprechaun's collection of shrunken heads. A meager harvest. The deer eat them, but we do not. We're hoping to bring the orchard back. We pruned one tree last year so radically that it was more stump than tree, but since then it has managed an irrepressible little renaissance, firing fresh shoots up out of its own ruins...
...imagines the exile will last long. You can prune Bill Clinton down to a stump and he rises every time from his own ruins. It's happened many times before, it's his motif - death and resurrection. He turns up like Tom Sawyer at his own funeral. "Coriolanus," being a tragedy, had to end in the protagonist's death. Clinton is incapable of tragedy. What he needs is a new project...