Word: hauntings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Unmaking of a Senator: How Bloggers Pulled It Off With Lieberman's primary loss, the netroots movement has established itself as a power center among Democrats. But will its influence haunt the party in November...
...Unmaking of a Senator: How Bloggers Pulled It Off With Lieberman's primary loss, the netroots movement has established itself as a power center among Democrats. But will its influence haunt the party in November...
...typical Mann noir is different. It rarely uses flashbacks. Most of the ganefs in Desperate and Railroaded! have no past to haunt them. The present is spooky enough. Like their movies, they exist in the now. They are what they do, and what is done to them: existential unheroes. Only rarely do they blame society for their scrappy status, as Joe does in Raw Deal: "And if you want to know what happened to that kid with the medal - he had to hock it at 16. He got hungry." The war, the defining event...
...tales of her time in London's Priory clinic for treatment for depression as an 18-year-old. Allen is trying to shrug it off. "I know what the British press are like, and if I wasn't honest about my past, then it would only come back to haunt me, as it has today," says Allen. "I don't feel ashamed of anything that I've done and I don't feel like I need to hide any of it. I just think it's a bit silly, really." But no one disputes that her life has been rocky...
...candidate for public office himself, in this year's race for Georgia Lieutenant Governor, Reed's squeaky clean, boy-next-door image came back to haunt him. After he started out a year ago with a huge lead in both the polls and fundraising over his relatively unknown opponent, Reed's connection to the Jack Abramoff congressional lobbying scandal unmasked the candidate who built his career on the issue of values as one who apparently had his own questionable values. And so it was that Tuesday Reed lost both his party and his religious conservative base in a humbling Republican...