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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...
Since 1992, Springsteen has released only one album of new music, the fairly boring and indifferently-received The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995), which told long stories with underlying messges of social protest to the accompanying of a softlystrummed guitar, and which sold only 585,000 copies: small change for a giant like Springsteen, whose 1984 release Born in the U.S.A. was one of the best-selling albums of all time. But in the year Joad was released, Springsteen issued his first Greatest Hits compilation, which sold a healthy 2.2 million copies, followed last year by a live album...
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...