Word: hauntings
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...believe him. I really do. But Murphy’s words haunt me for one reason. I thought back to the press conference after last year’s Columbia game—another blowout, this time at home. Robbie Wright had nailed a field goal...
...preparation for the upcoming season, Leiszler entered last spring’s workouts as the starting running back. The previous season, he had amassed 483 yards on 101 attempts and scored six touchdowns. Everything was looking up for Leiszler—but then an old injury came back to haunt...
Every day I read the newspapers, hoping to learn something more about this war, this total war, this war against terrorism, that we are fighting. But only two images haunt my waking and sleeping; the smoldering tomb of 2,905 souls (at the latest count) at Ground Zero, and the arid Afghan landscape, starkly beautiful in my mind (and in the words of the press). In both my images, there are no people, in one because they are interred in concrete, in the other, because Afghanistan has been described to us so many times as a harsh, inhospitable land...
...Sharon's tactics, of course, are by no means the only obstacle to restoring dialogue. The forces Arafat set in motion when the intifada began last year are now coming back to haunt him. As much as he wants a return to the negotiating table, Palestinian public opinion is firmly behind the militants against whom Arafat would have to act in order to restart the peace process. And the Palestinian street has little enthusiasm for new talks with Israel. Arafat has considerably less political authority and room for maneuver than he had a year...
...Office of Homeland Security will be more of a burden in the short term. The last thing we need now is to add the growing pains of a new agency to an already ailing security network. Its hurried creation will come back to haunt it sooner rather than later. And its vague position among existing security agencies are likely to lead to divisive infighting if Ridge and Bush assert powers for the Office that other agencies are not ready to give...