Word: haunt
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...blossoming love, an indecent letter, a brutal crime. Misconstrued, they set the stage for a tragic transgression—an unforgivable sin—that will haunt Briony Tallis, the remorseful heroine of Ian McEwan’s novel “Atonement,” for the rest of her life...
...interviews will haunt viewers long after they have left the theaters: Nguyet Anh Duong, a refugee of the Vietnam War, who now designs bombs for the U.S. Army; and Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, Ret., a life-long soldier and Pentagon staffer who became so disillusioned with the conduct of the current Iraq War that she retired from the military and has forbidden her sons from enlisting...
...ambiguity of Hamas's new position was brought home to me during my commute on Wednesday, when I stopped into an old Brooklyn haunt where the man behind the counter is an exile from Tulkarm who makes no secret of his enthusiasm for Hamas and his loathing for the idea of a two-state solution. I expected to find him jubilant, but instead he was visibly glum as he sat watching al-Jazeera commentary on the election results. "Terrible," he sighed. "This is terrible. It means the end of Hamas." In the sense that he meant it, all I could...
...life of Marc Chagall, who taught art at a Soviet orphanage, and that of his roommate, a brilliant yet all but forgotten Yiddish writer known as Der Nister, "the Hidden One." Their stories form a deeply satisfying literary mystery and a funny-sad meditation on how the past haunts the present?and how we haunt the future...
...eavesdropping policy shows the extent to which the war on terrorism has spurred the intelligence community to flout legal conventions at home and abroad. Risen's chief target is the CIA, where, he argues, institutional dysfunction and feckless leadership after 9/11 led to intelligence breakdowns that continue to haunt the U.S. Though much of State of War covers ground that is broadly familiar, the book is punctuated with a wealth of previously unreported tidbits about covert meetings, aborted CIA operations and Oval Office outbursts. The result is a brisk, if dispiriting, chronicle of how, since 9/11, the "most covert tools...