Word: ghosts
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...manage your accounts. In fact, the last third of the book focuses on humanity's indebtedness to nature, as told through a parody of A Christmas Carol and the stark, postapocalyptic reality that awaits Scrooge if he does not change his ways and listen to the Ghost of Earth Day Past. TIME talks to Atwood about Payback, the environment and what happens when...
...Texas: A Primary Ghost, 7:30 a.m. E.T. Yesterday, Dallas was witness to shades and shadows of what might have been. Onetime presidential contender John Edwards sat with family mourners at the funeral of his former national finance chairman, Dallas attorney Fred Baron,. It was Baron who confirmed in August that he had sent funds to Edwards' now acknowledged mistress. The multimillionaire attorney and key Democratic fundraiser, who made a fortune in asbestos lawsuits, died of cancer just days before the climax of the main event in American politics. Baron had played a key role in reviving the Texas Democratic...
...critics' group gives him the coveted Leni Riefenstahl Award for his films Die You American Pigs and America Sucks the Big One. But the auteur is not as popular with "real" Americans. He is called a "fat, ignorant, America-hating traitor," a "sack o' shit" and, by the ghost of J.F.K., "a douche...
...ghost of J.F.K.? Yes, this is an update of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Kennedy as Marley's Ghost. George S. Patton (Kelsey Grammer) is the Ghost of America Past, George Washington (Jon Voight) the Ghost of America Present, and an Angel of Death (Trace Adkins) points Malone to the future. From these wraiths we learn that pacifists like Malone would have been responsible for the continuation of slavery into the 21st century (because they opposed the Civil War) and for the Holocaust (you know why). A flashback to 1938 shows Neville Chamberlain signing the nonaggression pact with Hitler, then...
Just before dusk, Stevens read the students a ghost story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne...