Word: ghosts
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...China is eternal. ... We shall live on until the enemy is driven back over scorched land and hurled into the sea. ... Out of the ashes of ruin ... until the world is again sane and beautiful." The firing squad's fatal work doesn't interrupt Kwan Mei's oration; her ghost finishes the speech. It would be Wong's last grand gesture in films...
...going to do for the day." He had never read comics that explored personal issues, so he gave up on the idea. Then, as he was completing a double major in philosophy and cognitive psychology at Ohio State, a girlfriend gave him a copy of Daniel Clowes' graphic novel Ghost World. It was a revelation. "It presented comics," he says, "as a vehicle for emotion and honesty...
...this modest home on Fuqiang Lane. Many ordinary Chinese remember Zhao Ziyang, who advocated political reform and opposed the Tiananmen Square massacre, as a symbol of their country's democratic aspirations. His former comrades, by contrast, had tried never to mention him at all. Zhao became a political ghost, but one with a rare power. The mere utterance of his name, everybody knew, could reopen debate about his ideas. Many Chinese had hoped that their current leader, President Hu Jintao, would someday invoke Zhao and nudge China toward an opening of its political system...
...gaming like India or Morocco," says Romain Poirot-Lellig, director of the industry association APOM. EA says its intentions are not hostile and industry sources in the U.S. point out that one of Ubisoft's best-selling games is - mon dieu! - that great French cultural gem, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon. - By Peter Gumbel Apple Gets Hard Core Profits at Apple more than quadrupled to a record $295 million in the first quarter, thanks to a 525% jump in sales of the iPod. Meanwhile, the computer maker unveiled the Mac mini, a cut-price desktop, and a no-frills, smaller...
...last four years have been equally painful for the two clubs, but in very different ways. The Yankees have felt the pain so common to their Boston counterparts: the agony of coming tantalizingly close to glory but ultimately failing. If the ghost of Babe Ruth has haunted Fenway Park these past 86 years, then the ghosts of Luis Gonzalez, David Eckstein, Josh Beckett and Johnny Damon should find plenty of cozy resting places in cavernous Yankee Stadium...