Word: ghosts
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...fact, in almost all aspects of modern Harvard life, vestiges of Harvard’s past creep in like Charles Dickens’ first ghost of Christmas who comes to scare the Scrooge. In a time when the world around us is changing faster than Paris Hilton’s boyfriends (consider the internet, DVD’s, and the recent cloning of a dog), I for one find it particularly comforting to know that my own college experience will be almost hauntingly similar to that of the men who walked the halls of Sever and Emerson over 50 years...
ANTHONY ROMERO 2005 A.C.L.U. executive director and one of TIME's 25 Most Influential Hispanics I nominate "Ghost Detainee X," representing almost 30 prisoners held incommunicado, without legal rights or access to counsel, in a network of secret prisons in Europe and Asia. Their existence raises serious doubts about whether or not we are betraying the best of American values...
...entirely awake. I guess her soothing voice has therapeutic advantages because he wakes up with a vendetta. He clutches Kate’s throat and asks her why she killed him.Wait, Wayne is possessing Sawyer? Is this “Lost” or “Ghost Whisperer”?This incident prompts her to run the hell away, into the arms of Jack. And the two share a passionate kiss. That lucky bitch. Anyways, Kate goes back to Sawyer, who is still not fully conscious. She begins by talking to Wayne, confessing that when she feels anything...
...Romanian government did not have access to all parts of a base used by the U.S. during the Iraq conflict, they have agreed to launch a parliamentary inquiry. Since the country aspires to join the European Union as early as 2007, and the existence of "dark bases" housing "ghost prisoners" would contravene European human rights standards, Romania may be forced to take a closer look at the activities of its U.S. ally on its soil-with more U.S. bases now slated to open and much of the EU uneasy about U.S. practices, the pressure on Romania for transparency is only...
...Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern reportedly said after a Washington meeting with Rice that she expected U.S. allies to take it on trust that the U.S. does not allow abuses of prisoners. But the administration appears to be distinguishing between abuse - which it denies - and holding ?ghost? detainees in secret prisons abroad, which it has not denied, but only refused to confirm on the record or give details. Indeed, U.S. officials hint that at least some foreign officials have been in the know on movements of CIA aircraft, secret holding facilities or other operations, those governments may be getting...