Word: hauntings
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...nation's most vocal supporters of the death penalty, faced a very public decision as he weighed McGinn's fate. And by granting McGinn a stay of execution and recommending the DNA tests, Bush executed an unalloyed about-face, knowing the case could very well come back to haunt him in November. The stay was the only alternative to execution: Under Texas law, the governor cannot change McGinn's sentence without the approval of state parole board, which has voted overwhelmingly to proceed with the execution...
...soldier-authors are known to have written, living testimonials from ordinary men who only suspected they were about to die. There is no vainglory of war in these missives, just the eternal mystery of man's preference for the call to arms over the Golden Rule. These epistles haunt the soul the same way the best war poems do--perhaps even more poignantly, because we know what their authors didn't: that in Owen's memorable line, their eyes would very soon "shine the holy glimmers of good-byes...
...part were being held. Her only formal acting training to this day remains some boarding-school drama classes. She is an instinctive actress. Demme remembers bursting out laughing with pleasure when she came up with the croaking voice for the title character Beloved, the ghostly daughter who returns to haunt the mother who killed her. "The voice was a big part of the character, and she was literally brilliant. She had the courage to go all the way," says Demme. Newton, amused to hear about the director's compliment, says her inspiration was Yoda from Star Wars. Paula Wagner, Cruise...
...million Democratic fund-raising gala. He'd scored one for free trade and corporate campaign donations by being on the winning side of the China trade bill, but he'd had to buck the Big Labor heavies - and like a boozy faux pas, it might be coming back to haunt him. He'd asked unions the classic New Democrat question - where else you gonna go? - but this time they were giving it some serious thought. "In the end, most of the unions want Al Gore elected," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty. "But the question is, in November, will...
...Clinton prepares to leave office, but lingering anxieties about his legacy haunt...