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Even his language is solitary: Dole gets ribbed for his speaking style, the guttural growls, the verbal wheat germ ("anti-dumping; level the playing field; Super Three; may not mean a lot to you, but it's important"), the unpopulated syntax ("Have to look into that. See what happens in committee. Gotta go"). Dole speaks a language all his own. It's Indo-Midwestern, rooted in a place where there's no extra credit for extra words, where humor is often truth's only reliable vehicle. Dole's vernacular of nods, grunts, snickers and shrugs can be as baffling...
Living in Moscow helps. Life is simple there, with the sweet smell of wheat fields and the muted bustle of a small college town to lull the senses--and with, in theory, little to distract O'Brien, who suffers from attention-deficit disorder. His girlfriend of three years, Leilani Sing, 23, a former Miss Klamath County who teaches scuba diving, moved in with him in the early summer, and the two spend their spare time watching videos in the spacious home he built last year. Still, easygoing, accessible and sociable, O'Brien cannot help offering a piece of himself...
...Mortgages on that land were foreclosed after the Clarks stopped making payments. Emmett's grandson Dean, 30, then tried to save the family holdings by buying 3,000 acres back at auction--but stands to lose them again because the siege has prevented him from getting last year's wheat crop to market or this year's crop in the ground. Last fall, when Dean tried to retrieve stored wheat from the silos at his grandfather's [foreclosed] farm, his father Richard, 47--who later turned himself in and is now in jail awaiting trial on Freemen-related charges--chased...
Meanwhile, the FBI has blocked all access to the adjacent acreage. Unless Dean can plant a new crop of spring wheat by mid-June, he will have no revenue for meeting his mortgage payments. Still desperately trying to strike a deal with the FBI, Dean will not give interviews...
...were Sumerians living along what is now the Iran-Iraq border at a time when agriculture and permanent human settlements were first being established. "They were clearly a pretty sophisticated people," says McGovern. "They built reasonably complex mud-brick buildings, and we have evidence that they grew barley and wheat." Now we know they also made wine, along with the jars to store it in. Wine and civilization thus seem to have been invented at roughly the same time--a fact that the French, at least, won't find at all surprising...