Word: haunt
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...golden-domed Sule Pagoda in downtown Rangoon. Facing us are hundreds of soldiers and riot police, who look on edge as they finger their assault rifles. The protesters, mostly ordinary Burmese clad in sarongs and sandals, appear undaunted, even jubilant. Defiantly, they chant a Buddhist mantra whose melody will haunt me for days...
...want to create an international incident by firing on a scruffy-looking Brit, and that my presence will protect the protesters. She will soon be proved terribly wrong. But for the moment, the protesters appear undaunted, even jubilant. They are chanting a Buddhist mantra whose melody will haunt me for days to come...
...That party line, of course, is coming straight from the top, and many observers think it will come back to haunt the entire G.O.P. a year from now. While the bill passed both chambers of Congress with relatively strong bipartisan support, it failed to get enough votes in the House to override President Bush's veto, which he issued Wednesday morning. Bush insists the expanded program, by raising the income eligibility levels, would draw children away from private insurance plans and act as a first step toward socialized medicine. But Democrats know that ideological debates are no match for pictures...
Were Edwards actually to win the nomination, that is a decision that could come back to haunt him. From the time he would clinch the nomination until after next summer's Democratic Convention, when the general election campaign officially begins, he would be barred from spending anything. That would make it difficult to defend himself against certain assaults from the G.O.P. Edwards strategists say outside groups could do some of that for him, but when Bob Dole found himself in similar straits in 1996, he was reduced to doing photo ops at gas stations around the Beltway to get attention...
...increasing national attention. The black community in Jena has harnessed national outrage to sign petitions, write letters, raise awareness, and fundraise for a better defense for the six defendants. Their spirit of indignant activism lends hope that we can put an end to such violent abuses of justice that haunt our country...