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...mothers, for their part, are mystified by their daughters' seemingly ungrateful attitudes, shaking their heads with regret. What the daughters don't know are the dark secrets of the past that the mothers keep inside, which haunt them in the film in excruciating detail. One by one, the mothers reveal their scars to their daughters, who draw strength from their mothers' catharses and finally realize the full extent of their love. After years of self-doubt, they feel acceptance...
...surrender progress because of the ambitions of one warlord would be a monumental defeat. The precedent that such a retreat would leave behind would haunt us for years to come. Gunmen around the world would know that if they target Americans for long enough, retreat is likely. In the coming years, American soldiers will be in places just as dangerous as Somalia. Are we going to send that precedent with them...
...issue. After I decided to come out, I never faced any open homophobia," Boykin said. "But others at Harvard Law hoped to go on to have important careers in the future as judges, lawyers, elected officials and people understandably had some concerns about... having it come back to haunt them...
Tens of thousands of homeless children haunt the alleys and boulevards of Brazil's major cities. "The typical menino de rua," says Roberto Jose dos Santos, who runs the Sao Martinho shelter, "is black or mulatto with lots of brothers and sisters. There is an alcoholic mother or stepfather. He, and increasingly she, has grown up in a climate of violence in a suburban slum. No one is concerned about keeping him in school. There is no love or affection at home, and so he leaves...
...showdown in the U.S. Senate was just the most dramatic incident in a war against symbols that continues to haunt the South. The Confederate battle flag flew atop Alabama's capitol until a few months ago. Blacks in Mississippi are suing to remove the same emblem from their state flag. Georgia Governor Zell Miller's proposal to "purge the dark side of the Confederacy" -- again the battle emblem -- from that state flag failed earlier this year...