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Some Tassos ( tasso yew tree, anvil, or badger) made their homes near an arboreal landmark or were ironworkers, but others tended to sneak around at night like certain members of the weasel family.
The recent twist has been to note the fact that longbows are traditionally made of yew wood, and claim that the act of drawing the bowstring was called plucking yew; the victorious English not only waved their fingers at the French, but shouted We can still pluck yew!
Pluck yew! at them.
Those skills have been handed down to present-day craftsmen working in yew wood, and the old timbered houses are exquisitely maintained in traditional style.
Amid the continuing economic crisis in Asia, former Singapore leader Lee Kuan Yew (now senior minister in the Singapore government) said in an interview Sunday with Japan's main economic daily, Nihon Keizai Shimbun (or Nikkei ), that Japan and the United States must help the economic reconstruction of Indonesia, because the rest of Asia does not "have the strength to solve Indonesia's trade problems."