Word: hauntings
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...dots pointed to a clear Iraq threat and possession of weapons of mass destruction. "Intelligence is not an exact science," says Card. "Some dots you collect may turn out not to be real; others turn out to be real dots." One bum dot that has come back to haunt the Administration: A line in the President's State of the Union address referring to reports about Iraq's efforts in Niger to obtain uranium oxide to build nuclear weapons that later turned out to be false. "I would put that in the category of a dot that went bad," says...
...CGIS tunnel may be dead, but its ghost lives on. Hopefully it will haunt Harvard’s presence in Allston long enough to ensure that the many varied mistakes of the past are not forgotten...
What they have in common is that optimistic promises from the fat old days are coming back to haunt them. Democrat Gary Locke pledged to be Washington State's "education Governor," but in January tens of thousands of teachers marched on the state capitol to protest his plan to deny them pay increases, and the Washington Education Association has been running ads accusing him of breaking his word to children. The bleak fiscal situation has also meant no honeymoon for the bumper crop of 24 new Governors elected last year...
...delivers her opening monologue, four actors stand behind her, backs facing the audiences, echoing her words. Their voices create an eerie, trance-like effect, as they act as the play’s own dybbuks—spirits of those who die before their time and return to haunt the living. The actors then turn forward to reveal the stars of David on their coats, and the scene transports us into a Jewish ghetto, where the inhabitants await their delivery to Nazi concentration camps...
...Such comments could come back to haunt Dean. If there is a central political reality in post-9/11 America, it is this: Voters won't be willing to listen to a candidate's ideas on the economy or any other domestic issue unless they are first convinced that he or she is a credible, competent guardian of national security. That's a hurdle that the Governor of Arkansas didn't have to clear in 1992, nor the Governor of Texas eight years later. "Security is very much on the table, as much as it was in 1960 with Kennedy...