Word: ghoulish
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...Qaeda engaged in short selling, brokerage records may point to as-yet-undiscovered conspirators. There could be pressure to change how stock transactions are cleared, making it harder to act anonymously. That would take away from bin Laden and other terrorists their most ghoulish form of financing: cashing in on the carnage they create...
...Outside the decaying former American embassy building in downtown Tehran - due to open next month as a "museum of global arrogance" - two university students waited for a bus. They eyed the ghoulish slogans painted on the wall: "America is a Great Satan" and "Iran will crush the U.S. under its foot." Sniffed one of the students, Maryam Ghasemi: "'Under our foot? Now the U.S. is lodged in our hearts...
...1980s finally gave way to a newer decade, the tide of public favor had noticeably turned against the King of Pop. The little boy had never truly grown up, still craving attention in the strangest ways. Gobs of makeup and plastic surgery transformed the onetime teen idol into a ghoulish spectacle, and many found it ironic that the singer would preach “it don’t matter if you’re black or white” while looking increasingly caucasian. The pristine image of Michael Jackson was cracking and fading; he had spoken of his perception...
...night police beat in a smallish Southern city. When the cops there were uncooperative, he would get his stories by knocking on the doors of victim?s families, asking if they would mind talking to a reporter about their son or daughter who had been killed that night. Ghoulish work - and yet these newly bereaved, he said, were often willing, even eager to sit down with him. They didn?t have many other people around to talk...
...first American official to meet Kim Jong Il, a figure as mysterious as his country, which has been closed to the West for 55 years. Crazy rumors swirled about the man known as the Great Leader. He infused himself with the blood of virgins to stay young, claimed some ghoulish types; he kidnapped Western models for his harem, said others. But the reality is what is really scary--and why Albright and Bill Clinton, who may head there next month, are trying to make friends fast. U.S. intelligence believes Kim has enough fissile material for nuclear bombs. He is developing...