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...Last November, The Los Angeles Times reported that the Pentagon pays to place both news reports and opinion pieces in the Iraqi media. Some articles are ghost-written by American soldiers and then planted in the Iraqi press; other payments are made to Iraqi journalists who write their own copy but toe the American line...
DIED. VINCENT SCHIAVELLI, 57, ubiquitous, droopy-eyed actor who appeared in minor-but-unforgettable roles in some 150 film and TV productions; of lung cancer; in Sicily, Italy. Among the amateur chef's memorable parts: a subway apparition in Ghost, a clueless teacher in Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Frederickson, an asylum inmate, in the Oscar-winning 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...
...Lowell House Junior Common Room. With no auditions or rehearsals, the students brandished impromptu props like a plastic skull, originally a Halloween decoration, that stood in for “Poor Yorick” and a blown-up rubber glove with a hand-drawn face that impersonated the ghost of Hamlet’s father. Actors drew parts randomly from a bowl, before each scene, to give them the opportunity to play more than one role. In a room laced with glowing Christmas decorations, the actors took the stage in front of the fireplace, completing the entirety...
...fact, in almost all aspects of modern Harvard life, vestiges of Harvard’s past creep in like Charles Dickens’ first ghost of Christmas who comes to scare the Scrooge. In a time when the world around us is changing faster than Paris Hilton’s boyfriends (consider the internet, DVD’s, and the recent cloning of a dog), I for one find it particularly comforting to know that my own college experience will be almost hauntingly similar to that of the men who walked the halls of Sever and Emerson over 50 years...
ANTHONY ROMERO 2005 A.C.L.U. executive director and one of TIME's 25 Most Influential Hispanics I nominate "Ghost Detainee X," representing almost 30 prisoners held incommunicado, without legal rights or access to counsel, in a network of secret prisons in Europe and Asia. Their existence raises serious doubts about whether or not we are betraying the best of American values...