Word: haunt
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...last few possessions. Successive turnovers on offense by the Crimson have allowed the Bulldogs to come within four. Harvard's shooting, prolific earlier in the half, has gone by the wayside and the interior problems that have plagued this team throughout the season are once again creeping up to haunt them. Let's see how the Crimson respond after the timeout. [Harvard 29, Yale...
...best place to find vintage American cars from the 1950s is not anywhere in the United States. It is Havana, Cuba, once a balmy tourist spot and the seat of the authoritarian regime led until last week by Fidel Castro. Boxy, majestic Chevys and Pontiacs haunt the streets here, reinforced with fenders made from scrap metal, painted and repainted past recognition...
...largest-ever mandate. But the euphoria hasn't lasted. Abdullah has been criticized for everything from restarting several of Mahathir's extravagant megaprojects to rolling back press freedoms that he himself had granted. At the same time, his stolid image as a compromise candidate has come back to haunt him. "His performance is disappointing, unexciting," says Kuala Lumpur-based economist Din Merican. "He can't grasp details, and he does not understand the future...
...busing. After McGovern won the nomination, the Teamsters, longshoremen and construction-workers unions refused to back him. Something similar happened in 1988, when white working-class Democrats couldn't stomach Dukakis' opposition to the death penalty. In both years, the primaries exposed bitter ideological divisions that came back to haunt the party in November. In 1972 Democrat Henry (Scoop) Jackson, in his bid for blue-collar primary votes, called McGovern the candidate of "amnesty, acid and abortion"--a line that Richard Nixon borrowed to devastating effect. In 1988 it was a young Al Gore who first brought up Dukakis' furlough...
...Amaker wisely calls a timeout. Shades of last night's game against Cornell are starting to haunt this reporter. Out of the pause, Columbia draws another foul (17th of the night). Housman with the one and one opportunity. He makes both, obviously. Harvard 46, Columbia...