BBC:

Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli prime minister, has been moved from a hospital to his home.

The 82-year-old has been in a coma since 2006, when he suffered a massive stroke.

“Clearly what’s behind this move home is the hope that his situation will get better. But the improvements that we talk about in such situations are not great improvements, not dramatic improvements,” he added.

To use the words of Marvin Gaye: This ain’t living. But if Sharon were to wake up, if his mind where to return to him in the moment of a miracle, the first thing I’d like him to see is the face of President Obama. How disorienting that would be. And his middle name is even Hussein!

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...

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