Word: ghosts
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...Iraq said U.S. commanders largely agreed with the report and are following its recommendation to turn over the vetting of recruits to the Iraqis, who have postponed some training to redo background checks. The spokesman also said the Iraqi Interior Ministry has begun using a biometric database to track "ghost employees" who are on the rolls but don't show up for work. A senior U.S. military officer in Iraq, however, tells TIME that he disagrees strongly with one opinion included in the report--that the Pentagon was serving up unprepared Iraqi police as "cannon fodder." --By Timothy J. Burger...
...economy will require extreme measures that are perhaps anathema to a free-market philosophy. Tariffs seem to be the next logical step. Another possibility is launching a propaganda campaign. If every television show had a 30-sec. piece featuring empty U.S. factories and dust blowing through American ghost towns, Chinese goods just might stop flying off the shelves. John A. Tardy Cordova, Tennessee, U.S. Sore Winner? Your item "A Hard-Liner For The People" [June 27] profiled Islamic zealot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the eve of the runoff vote in the Iranian presidential election, which he later won. Of Iranian politics...
...that some call Red Sox Nation. I?ve been to only one game in Fenway, that glorious first one. But I?ve found myself in this other situation that has delivered to me serendipitous opportunities of communion with the faithful. It?s been interesting-sometimes funny, sometimes odd (the ghost of Joe Cronin!), always-to me, at least-interesting...
...generation that stabilizes so many small towns is fast reaching the limits of mortality. As town elders die, even their money flees, inherited by offspring who long ago headed for the city--quickening the community's descent into dust. Yes, back home in Kansas they're minting ghost towns by the dozen...
...recently sat down in a theater full of critics and their pint-sized companions to watch Lohan’s fifth feature, “Herbie: Fully Loaded.” Once she came on screen, I felt like I was seeing a startlingly well-fed, auburn-tressed ghost. A ghost that delivered each wooden line reading in a hoarse screech. This may be another Disney remake, but Lohan ain’t the adorable star of “The Parent Trap” anymore...