Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Steffi Graff vs. the Ghost of Monica Seles With Wimbledon, French and U.S. Open victories, Fraulein Forehand had her best year. And still people wondered: What if Seles had not been stabbed on the court by a man who said he did it to help Steffi be No. 1? (He was later convicted but sentenced to only two years' probation...
...change. Few forces are more intense than tribal memory and grievance, the blood's need for vindication. $ The past wants revenge, like Hamlet's father's ghost. Peace settlements in South Africa and the Middle East will bury the bloody shirt, shut down the past as an imperative. The projects of Mandela-De Klerk and Arafat-Rabin are not yet realized, of course. Leaders must bring followers along. Leaders must exercise the visionary's gift. They must tell their people a new story about themselves (in these cases, the story of themselves at peace, to replace their older myth...
...rolling south from Pyongyang toward Kaesong near the DMZ, searching for signs of economic life in North Korea. Pyongyang, the capital, was like a ghost town?its spotless streets scrubbed clean of the messy bustle that defines most Asian capitals. The highway to the country's second-biggest city is nearly deserted. But our government handlers have promised to show us the Kaesong industrial park, where North Koreans are churning out watches, shoes and kitchenware in newly built South Korean-owned factories. After a two-hour drive, the bus stops on a bridge in the middle of nowhere. No industrial...
...River Gambia. Normally, the rusting blue barge would be packed with people and vehicles, while the road that runs up to the river would teem with taxis and trucks, traders shouting for business and farmers herding cows and donkeys. But this afternoon, the Gambian port of Farafenni is a ghost town. Bereft of customers, traders are closing their shops, pulling down corrugated shutters and tugging on the padlocks to make sure they're secure. A two-month-old dispute between Gambia and its enveloping neighbor Senegal has cut river crossings, the lifeblood of Farafenni's business, to a trickle. "This...
...Shoutouts to Space Ghost and Scooby Doo supplant Biggie and Pac, and there’s a whole track called “Aqua Teen Hunger Force,” but for the most part Doom sounds like his normal virtuosic self...