Word: ghosts
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...celebrated the team's success. Three years later, as their country was being torn apart by a bloody sectarian war between Shi'ites and Sunnis, the team (comprising of players from both sects) won the Asia Cup, leading to incredible scenes of jubilation on Baghdad's streets. The ghost of Uday Hussein and memories of his torture devices seemed to have been well and truly exorcized...
...Despite being twice-trounced by Spain, Russia had been the tournament's other bright light, and it too played the high-tempo attacking game of the Spanish. A ghost of its CCCP past, this team announced that once again Russia was ready to play on the world soccer stage. Guus Hiddink's men, led by its striking partnership of Roman Pavlyuchenko and Andrei Arshavin, had the wannabe oligarchs in attendance contentedly puffing on their Havanas. The only pity was that the Russians had to play Spain twice...
...world’s smartest college students have to battle the world’s smartest zombies,” he said. “Usually you get serial killers and ghost stories and stuff with college kids. There hasn’t been a college zombie movie yet. It will have that great cheekiness, some great horror moments—it’s really a great blend...
...perhaps even a flow-way reconnecting the lake to the Glades. This could help re-create the original north-south movement of the River of Grass and eliminate damaging pulses of excess water into coastal estuaries. That would be good news for panthers and gators, dolphins and herons, ghost orchids and royal palms...
...Congo has been the suffering heart of Africa for more than a century, and its turbulent colonial history has been well documented in novels like Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, and in Adam Hochschild's nonfiction King Leopold's Ghost. But the more recent travails of what is today the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C.) have until now been poorly appreciated. And they are apocalyptic. In January, the International Rescue Committee estimated that 5.4 million people have died in the various wars - and their related effects - that have torn through Congo since...