Word: haunt
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...question is: Will Bay Area residents pay attention to what these public-spirited researchers say? The ghost of Hurricane Katrina, no less than that of 1906, will haunt the centennial as it gets under way. "Katrina has shown us what a $100 billion--plus disaster looks like, the kind of disaster no one wanted to talk about before," says Chris Poland, chief executive of Degenkolb Engineers and chairman of the conference. "It's shown us what happens when you damage a community so much that its economy stops...
...Shays didn't just support the war; he's been to Iraq 11 times since the U.S. invasion and frequently raves about the burgeoning democracy there. But those trips could come back to haunt Shays this fall. His Democratic challenger, Dianne Farrell, who surprised political observers by losing by only 4 points to Shays in 2004, has made Shays' support of President Bush's war the centerpiece of her campaign. Her campaign may well prove to be a referendum on her party's prospects for taking back control of the House. If they want to have any shot...
Those apocalyptic strains haunt Apocalypto, which takes place in an opulent but decaying Maya kingdom, whose leaders insist that if the gods are not appeased by more temples and human sacrifices, the crops will die. But the writers hope that the larger themes of decline will be a wake-up call. "The parallels between the environmental imbalance and corruption of values that doomed the Maya and what's happening to our own civilization are eerie," says Safinia. Gibson, who insists ideology matters less to him than stories of "penitential hardship" like his Oscar-winning Braveheart, puts it more bluntly...
...President and the Republican Party have cultivated in the people of the U.S. since 9/11. Bush needed Americans to adopt those attitudes in order to justify the war in Iraq and ensure his reelection. What he didn't count on was that those same attitudes would come back to haunt...
...Cambridge 1 for weekend revelry, but one piece of not-so-prime real estate seems unable to find a long-term tenant. When Phatt Boys opened last summer in the 50 Church St. space vacated by failed restaurant Rock Bottom, Harvard kids were ecstatic to find a new haunt for live music, good food, and cheap drinks. Many frequented Phatt Boys throughout first semester, and the cavernous eatery earned a rep for fun (read: lax carding). Yet today, nearly all remnants of Phatt Boys’s existence have disappeared. The reasons for its shutdown are unclear. An employee...