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...impressive ability to talk for hours without a text, but his train of thought was occasionally derailed. At times he would start a sentence with a shout but end in a mumble. Quoting obscure passages from Jonathan Swift and reminiscing about old political battles, Foot seemed like a ghost from the past, "a kind of walking obituary for the Labor Party," as Guardian Columnist Peter Jenkins put it. In the dwindling days of the campaign, journalists began comparing Foot to another doomed figure, King Lear...
Power recommends engaging Iran, including high-level negotiations. It's not very reassuring to see how little we've learned from history. The ghost of Neville Chamberlain rides again. Greg Lifschultz, ROWLETT, TEXAS...
...Assembly is a veteran of the country's rough-and-tumble politics: she has switched political parties four times. That has helped earn her the derogatory epithet lota, the round-bottomed (and thus wobbly) pitchers used in Pakistani bathrooms. But this time around, Hussain has a powerful ally: the ghost of Benazir Bhutto, the popular former Prime Minister who was assassinated on December...
...taboo topic", says Una Reilly, chairman of the Belfast Titanic Society, during a tour of the TSP site. "There was almost a sense of shame that it had been built here." But Reilly, whose great-grandfather worked as a cabinetmaker on the Titanic, is convinced that this ghost from Belfast's past is the perfect vehicle for the city's future. "The Titanic was at the cutting edge of technology when she was built. That's the kind of innovation Belfast should be striving for today...
...year-old in 1994, as a tough kid who witnessed a mob-related suicide in The Client opposite Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones. That mature, soulful performance was, sadly, the peak of actor Brad Renfro's career. Though he went on to roles in Sleepers and Ghost World, he was battling drug addiction and in 2006 spent 10 days in jail for drunk driving and attempted heroin possession. His death is under investigation...