Word: haunt
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...authorities, who hope to determine whether some donors have been promised places in the House of Lords in return for their generosity. Labour is not the only party under scrutiny, but the pledges of impeccable probity made when it came to power in 1997 are coming back to haunt it. Levy's arrest, said his lawyer, "was unnecessary, disproportionate and ... entirely theatrical." An instinct for showbiz partly explains his prominence. Success in the music industry moved Levy into exalted circles. He met Blair at a 1994 dinner party. A peerage - as membership of the Lords is called - followed three years...
...behind closed doors unsupervised. Glowing marble busts of members from generations past covered the walls.As the age-old parquet floor creaked sonorously under my feet, I couldn’t but think of what an unlikely set of circumstances had landed me in this most rarefied of spaces, a haunt solely dedicated to members of France’s five most elite academies—the first of which was founded in the 17th century by Cardinal Richelieu, and all of which are now grouped under a gilded cupola facing the Seine, ironically just steps away from where noisy tourist...
...Bush and his aides insist will happen. But the very fact that parts of Iraq remain on the edge of chaos after three years of fighting and the deaths of more than 2,500 Americans are incontrovertible evidence of how the Administration's miscalculations have come back to haunt it. Toppling Saddam was to be the singular demonstration of the Bush Doctrine, a quick and decisive strike against tyranny in the heart of the Middle East. It would also send a message to the rest of the world's malefactors, including Iran and North Korea, to think twice about testing...
...Your story refers to the Haditha incident as "an alleged atrocity committed by a small group of Marines that promises to haunt the hearts and minds of liberator and liberated alike." Liberated? From what? From living under a dictatorship, but in relative peace, to living under foreign occupation, in fear, poverty, civil war and terror? Under blatantly false and illegal pretenses, the U.S. invaded a country that had not attacked it or its allies. About 40,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed, not to mention untold thousands of Iraqi conscript soldiers; the Americans are too arrogant to even keep count...
...this hellish situation in the first place and who stubbornly and arrogantly leave them there to fight a senseless and unwinnable war. Bill Blackwell Timonium, Maryland, U.S. Your story refers to the Haditha incident as "an alleged atrocity committed by a small group of Marines that promises to haunt the hearts and minds of liberator and liberated alike." Liberated? From what? From living under a dictatorship, but in relative peace, to living under foreign occupation, in fear, poverty, civil war and terror? Under blatantly false and illegal pretenses, the U.S. invaded a country that had not attacked...