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...global vocabulary. And it’s a language that cuts across all cultures…America is a culture of amnesia, and to me, a lot of issues pop up precisely because of that; the more we forget history, the more it seems to come back and haunt...
Cruikshank says his characters “are not based on real people,” even though the mystery is largely set in Cruikshank’s old haunt...
...most fateful moment of his life, the words came back to haunt Pantano. It was late afternoon, and darkness was setting in. Pantano and his platoon were on a raid north of Mahmudiyah, not far from Baghdad, acting on a tip about a possible insurgent hideout. As the Marines neared their target, they spotted a car fleeing the area. Pantano's men set up a checkpoint and ordered the car to stop. Inside were two Iraqis. One looked to be in his 30s, the other in his late teens. According to accounts given to TIME by Pantano's civilian lawyer...
...That knowledge didn’t stop Thomas E. Crooks ’49, a former FAS administrator, from telling The Crimson in 1986 that ghosts haunt Holden Chapel—part of his larger theory that all of Harvard is haunted. “One time I found a pizza on John Harvard’s lap,” said Crooks, who died in 1998. “Who on earth would want to feed...
...China. Washington hates the idea, but the ending of the "bizarre and obsolete" embargo "has been announced and will materialize," one French diplomat told Time. The U.S. has also rejected the British-led effort to forgive much of the developing world's debt. Even Iraq could come back to haunt the relationship. Europe's reaction to what Bush characterized as "a stunning success" at the polls was so nuanced that it seemed to demand a compound noun all its own. If schadenfreude is pleasure at the discomfort of others, then what is discomfort at the pleasure of others? Freudenschmerz? Maleuphorie...