Word: hauntings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Nonetheless, I came out of the summer feeling that I’d been duped and paid far too much for far too little. I vowed to get a more reasonable deal on housing if I returned to Washington for the summer. That decision has now come back to haunt...
...good place to start the campaign might be Club Y, a sleazy haunt that Filipinas working on the strip call "a bad bar." Rosie Danan found out just how bad the week she started working there in late 1999, at the age of 16. Back home in Manila, a recruiting agency had promised Danan the job would require her merely to serve drinks and chat with customers. After she arrived in Korea?on a false passport?Club Y's mama-san took her papers away and told her the rules: she would be serving up her body as well...
...uneasy about the conduct and fairness of the Anwar trials. "However much the ruling party tries to pretend he doesn't exist," says political science professor P. Ramasamy, "more and more people in Malaysia regard Anwar as a political prisoner. Until they deal with that, he will continue to haunt the government?and the country...
...freshly speared fish over a bonfire. After dinner and lazy conversation, my fellow escapees wandered the beach or plunged back into the warm waters for a farewell swim. My four-day getaway was over, and as the Marco Polo turned back to Bira, Engel's early observation continued to haunt me. I could always get a boat and set up shop on my own little island. Nobody would ever find me. That knowledge would be my most treasured souvenir...
...pity that's heartbreaking. "My mother had my body as it would never become," she says, as her mother undresses with a sympathetic detective. "But she had her own moonlit skin, her ocean eyes. She was hollow and lost and abandoned up." Sebold knows what it is to be haunted. In 1981, as a freshman at Syracuse University in upstate New York, she was savagely beaten and raped by a stranger. The trauma left her with ghosts that needed exorcising, and it wasn't until 1996, after two earlier failed novels and half of a third, that inspiration finally arrived...