Word: hauntings
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...Root of Kenya's Chaos As a Kenyan, I was troubled by "The Demons That Still Haunt Africa," which distorted the situation in Kenya either out of ignorance or in keeping with the Western media's romance with the bleak face of Africa [Jan. 21]. The postelection skirmishes in Kenya are not a natural consequence of poverty. Kenyans have been poor but peaceful for decades. Rather, the protests are the language of the weak against a regime that rigged itself into power. Second, tribalism is not new; it started with the imperial British driving wedges between people to facilitate colonization...
...Prime Minister's efforts have been successful. The violent collapse of peace negotiations with the Basque separatist group ETA is his most notable failure - and one that continues to haunt him. Nonetheless, Spain is a very different place now than it was four years...
...pulled back from the brink will reveal much about Africa's future. The nation embodies the best and worst of the continent--its vitality and economic potential but also its poverty, corruption and tribalism. So long as those conditions persist, crises like the one afflicting Kenya will continue to haunt Africa, stunting its growth and hurting its people. The outcome in Kenya may well determine whether Africa's renaissance sustains itself--or turns into another nightmare...
...state looms again as a candidate killer. "Since 1980, the person who won two out of [the first] three states has gone on to get the nomination," McCain often tells reporters on the trail. They are words that might come back to haunt him. Even though he leaves New Hampshire a victor, with a head full of steam, it appears to the voters in South Carolina that John McCain - long in the tooth and the Senate - is still an insurgent...
...modest 2% decline over the previous month. But 63% of respondents to that poll agreed that the president "exposes his private life too much" - another sign that Sarkozy's luck (or strategy) of press frenzy over his intimate affairs overshadowing real political news may now be coming back to haunt him. That reversal comes just as France enters what appears to be a period of economic sluggishness in the run-up to March municipal elections that will serve as a referendum on Sarkozy's leadership...