Word: hauntings
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...hatred they sow among the victims, nations and people will come back to haunt us." ABDULLAH AHMAD BADAWI, Prime Minister of Malaysia, warning of repercussions from abuse in U.S. military prisons...
Paul Bremer’s past life came back to haunt him last Sunday. On February 26, 2001, after chairing the Clinton-appointed National Commission on Terrorism, Bremer remarked in a speech, “The new administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem of terrorism. What they will do is stagger along until there’s a major incident and then suddenly say, ‘Oh, my God, shouldn’t we be organized to deal with this?’” When the quote resurfaced last weekend, the prescient proconsul...
Corpses have their own body language. Jean Vernet II's memories of Haiti under the dictatorial rule of Jean (Papa Doc) Duvalier are written in the patois of the murdered, and even today, decades later, the images of twisted limbs and fallen forms haunt him--and remind him of what can happen when ordinary people have no voice...
...wouldn't it be worse to find out that you were 101, the person who just missed being recognized as one of the 100 most powerful and influential people on Earth? Wouldn't that haunt you for the rest of your life, knowing that if you had just not slept in that one morning or skipped your kid's stupid school play, you could have made it? Wouldn't that drive you Salieri-mad? That's why I needed to call someone who just missed the TIME 100 and let him know. It was the only way I could feel...
Mimicking the struggles of everyday life, Boym takes the reader down each thread of plot and recreates the grueling process of discovering history. “It’s a way of exploring the roads one cannot take in real life, but that continue to haunt us,” she says...