He is the Olympic hero who helped fetch the gold, who curried favor by deferring on Darfur and the China connection during the Summer Games in Beijing.
"People would move out the way of me and call me stupid or mad," says Atim. "When I had asked someone to help fetch water for me, the neighbours would say: 'Why are you going to fetch for that girl?
The passion for resurrecting pre-Prohibition cocktails has helped fetch out of history's dustbin several forgotten elixirs, including Creme Yvette, allspice dram, orange bitters and, most famously, absinthe.
Backers contend that "made in America" labels would help fetch a higher price for American meat and produce, but opponents, including corporate ranchers and the meatpacking industry, say the labels would impose a costly regulatory burden and do little to improve food safety.
It is a common ploy here and elsewhere to have professional decorators "stage" unoccupied homes that are on the market with borrowed furnishings and appointments to help fetch top dollar, especially now that real estate sales have wilted like a week-old flower arrangement.
(The poor old musk-ox actually did go extinct in North America until money from W.K. Kellogg, the cereal baron, helped fetch some more from Greenland in 1930).In a few years the dozens of wood bison at the park together with some from Canada to diversify the gene pool will be released into the Alaskan wild, thus becoming the first wood bison to roam America in 100 years.
"Before, they had to help fetch water in the morning.
Sometimes, Ms Aideed took along her young daughters to help fetch the water meaning the children were either late at school or missed out altogether.
Some farms do profit from the ugly-produce movement: For now, at least, it helps them fetch higher prices for their seconds than they'd get from the processing market.
But timing and circumstances helped McCourt fetch far more than the Cubs did in 2009.
