Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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KING LEOPOLD'S GHOST: A STORY OF GREED, TERROR AND HEROISM IN COLONIAL AFRICA By Adam Hochschild '63 Houghton Mifflin...
...book, King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild '63 tells a haunting story that has been forgotten for nearly 85 years. Hochschild himself knew nothing of the murders that claimed 10 million lives in King Leopold's colony between 1890 and 1913, and only came across the information by chance. In a recent talk given at the Kennedy School in conjunction with the Human Rights Initiative, Hochschild said that he learned about the atrocities in the Congo from a "footnote in a book I was reading...written as part of the worldwide movement protesting atrocities in the Congo that had taken...
Hochschild's curiosity was indeed tremendous--King Leopold's Ghost is an extraordinarily dense work filled with Steamboat schedules, diary entries, calculations of the price of harvesting rubber from 1897 to 1904 in exact francs per kilo, and fantastical newspaper headlines from various countries. Yet Hochschild's carefully controlled pen never allows the data to dominate the story; he integrates the information into a fluid narrative style. This story is far from a series of dry laundry lists. Hochschild begins each chapter with a vivid character portrait that provides an accessible segue into the heart of the story...
Buffalo found the officiating so objectionable that it warranted boycotting the point-after. New England lined up 11 men against the ghost of an absent defense, and Adam Vinatieri trotted in untouched for two points. That's right, two points. 25-21. The Patriots covered the spread...
Before the rushing applause in Sanders Theatre stood the unforgettable dreds, expressive eyes and contagious smile of Whoopi Goldberg. It was she who made Jumpin' Jack Flash a gas, The Color Purple regal and Ghost come to life. The actress who gave us moments of laughter and pain still performs with power, as shown on Monday afternoon...