Word: ghosts
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...adapt, direct, produce and star in a two hour version of Hamlet. Then, last semester, my father mentioned this bizarre theory he had about Hamlet. His theory was that the lead player was hired by Horatio to play the role of Hamlet’s father’s ghost, under the assumption that Hamlet would hear the ghost, kill Claudius, take the throne and take Horatio as his advisor, which is what he originally wanted. The only evidence he had for this theory was that Horatio is the only character that lives in the end. It?...
...hamlet displays telltale scars: razed shops and markets and blackened, gutted houses. Villages still standing are eerily deserted. The town of Idi Rayeuk, once home to 15,000, was briefly occupied by GAM fighters in early March. Security forces moved in hours later, and now it is a charred ghost town presided over by Brimob, the Police Mobile Brigade under the command of the national police force? including some of the same troops who led the carnage in East Timor. The situation is so bad in Aceh that ExxonMobil, whose local plant produces one-third of the country...
Throughout the Philippines, there are tens of thousands of children who are like Robert, and tens of thousands more who are too white. They are called multo, or ghost, if they are light-skinned, and kulot, or curly-haired, if they are dark. A nickname that applies to both groups is Babay na sa, or Bye-bye to daddy. In all, there are 52,000 mixed-race children nationwide, most the unwanted offspring of Western men and Filipina prostitutes. Some, like 16-year-old Robert, live on the streets, surviving on handouts and sniffs of mind-numbing glue. "They...
...Nixon's real hero, whom he quoted on that last day in the White House, was Teddy Roosevelt. We should be grateful that the peacemaking statesman in Nixon triumphed over the ghost of TR, who said: "No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumph of war." Presidents are as complex as the rest...
...games are just another way of life” 7) “I think it’s time I found a new religion” 8) “Girl, I wanna waller in the back of my Impala” 9) “Saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue” 10) “She only comes when she’s on top” 11) “In the end we shall achieve in time / The thing they call divine?...