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...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...
...Susie's breezy, wisecracking voice sounds eerily familiar, that's because it could belong to a Martha Moxley or a Chandra Levy or a JonBenet Ramsey or any of the other little girls lost whose faces haunt billboards and photocopied flyers and whose stories we play and replay obsessively on the 6 o'clock news. "Murder had a blood red door," Susie tells us, "on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone." In The Lovely Bones, Sebold takes us behind that red door; she imagines the unimaginable and in doing so reminds us that those missing girls...
...Illegal Use of Hands Ghosts of scandals past returned to haunt the World Cup last week, when Senegalese midfielder Khalilou Fadiga was accused of shoplifting a gold necklace worth $240 in Taegu City, South Korea. If the hairs on the back of your neck are standing up, it's because you recall in 1970, en route to the Mexico World Cup, English skipper Bobby Moore was arrested in Bogota, Colombia, for?stealing a gold necklace. Moore, one of the greatest defenders in the history of the game, was arrested, released and endured a two-year investigation before finally being cleared...