Word: ghosts
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...star trade letters, they meet, and Hoose gains courage and acceptance. When Larsen throws his iconic perfect game in the World Series that October, "even a few girls came over" to the boy's desk. Hoose reconnects with the player 50 years later, expecting to find a "half-ghost." Instead, Larsen's joie de vivre inspires both author and reader...
...Clan’s nine members contribute to the record, beginning with Ghostface Killah on “Back in the Air.” Ghostface has had a Midas’ touch lately, but he can’t turn this lackluster RZA track into gold; the ghost of ODB just can’t keep up with him. “Intoxicated,” featuring Raekwon, and Method Man is also flat. Parts of ODB’s verse here have already appeared on Ghostface’s “9 Milli Bros...
...Dead in Oaxaca, everything is in limbo. Mexican tradition has the souls of the dead returning to visit on el Dia de los Muertos, but Oaxaca itself is very much a ghost town on this holiday. The beautiful colonial city has been wracked by months of labor protests and, then, beginning last weekend, violent government reprisals. It is now a jigsaw puzzle of barricades and graffiti: "Murderers," "Power to the People." The streets are mostly empty except for the occasional pedestrian carrying the "Pan de Muerto"-the sweet bread of the dead decorated with skull and bones...
...drove us everywhere during the week. Though his previous passengers had included Beyoncé Knowles and Christina Aguilera, he assured me that I’m (almost) as cool. I’ll take that. A free tour of the parliament building and a tourist-centric ghost tour of Edinburgh were matched with champagne, golf lessons from a pro, and an introduction to the infamous pubs. And even though my quest to find my prince of the United Kingdom only got as far as beers with distracted rugby players, it still classified as a good time...
...Curiously, according to Ghost Plane, the renditions teams left fingerprints in several places along their globe-trotting trail. They called home from their cell phones. In January 2004, a CIA team flying on a Boeing Business Jet, registered to Premier Executive Transport in Massachusetts - which Grey said appeared to list only one employee, and which has refused comment to Grey and other journalists - bedded down at the five-star Marriott Son Antem resort in Palma on Majorca, the Mediterranean island, after a long, grueling day: they had flown prisoners under cover of darkness from the Moroccan capital Rabat to Kabul...