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...daughter in April because Musa knew too much about drug-money-laundering. "Rodrigo wanted to talk about the deadly manipulation of laws and lives here," says his half brother Eduardo Rodas. Guatemala has asked the U.N. and the FBI to investigate his murder. After 500 years, Rosenberg's ghost may be the first to challenge Alvarado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Guatemala, Chasing Away the Ghost of Alvarado | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

...Ukraine next week. But the commission felt that the country, with its conservative Catholic west and Orthodox east, was just not ready for Brüno and the character's over-the-top sexual antics, including an explicit romp with his pint-size boyfriend and oral sex with a ghost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Sex, Please: Ukraine Bans Brüno | 7/15/2009 | See Source »

...thriller from a vital national cinema whose films are virtually unknown in the U.S. After his car runs over something on a country road - turns out to be a skeleton - a tough-guy newspaperman stops in a small town that seems to be under the curse of a female ghost and is certainly teeming with oddballs. It's the old story of the city slicker out-crazied by the remote rubes. Unfamiliarity with Malaysian film conventions may leave you wondering whether the tone is comic or melodramatic or simply extraterrestrial. No matter: enjoy the gorgeous neo-primitive imagery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asian Film Fireworks for the Fourth | 7/4/2009 | See Source »

...Though there are some very good publications in Pakistan, those are few and far between. The average Pakistani sees the ghost of India or the West in any tragedy that befalls the country. The average newspaper, by reinforcing those beliefs, provides an escape from dealing with the real problems and issues confronting Pakistan today. This is the real tragedy. Reggie Albuquerque, Willeton, Australia

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

...noting that when money is spent elsewhere-at big supermarkets, non-locally owned utilities and other services such as on-line retailers-"it flows out, like a wound." By shopping at the corner store instead of the big box, consumers keep their communities from becoming what the NEF calls "ghost towns" (areas devoid of neighborhood shops and services) or "clone towns", where Main Street now looks like every other Main Street with the same fast-food and retail chains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buying Local: How It Boosts the Economy | 6/11/2009 | See Source »

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