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...specific qualities of the current deficit are extended by fiscal conservatives like Tsongas and company to apply to deficit spending in general. They are using it as a political weapon to create a permanent fear of spending. Long after the deficit is reduced, the specter of overspending will haunt national debate. Aggressive, ambitious new spending will always have to contest with the ghost of "intergenerational morality...
Even early on, friends sensed in him an ability to move people that owed less to intellect than to the tug of sincerity. His sermons in those days were highly colorful and factually creative, to a point that would haunt him in later years. Heaven, he used to explain, measured 1,600 sq. mi.: "We are going to sit around the fireplace and have parties, and the angels will wait on us, and we'll drive down the golden streets in a yellow Cadillac convertible." Decades later, the vision has matured. "I think heaven is going to be a place...
...sort. The rain had prevented any candle-burning Satan worshippers from performing their heretical rituals, there was no dull moon for werewolves, high-winds had grounded the vampires and it was obviously too wet for mummies. The Tories themselves were terribly conservative folks, not really the types to haunt the living. Even a raven or a black cat would have sufficed, but my hopes of spotting something even moderately spooky soon dwindled. At midnight there were no church bells or demons, only the beeping of my watch and the whirr of passing taxis. Ethan A. Vogt...
...view of nineteenth-century white society that Asian men were asexual and that Asian women were submissive and exotic continues today and will doubtless haunt us for a long time. However, although we may not always have the power to choose how others represent us, we do have the power to define how we can live our lives...
...either natural or unnatural. The almost hallucinatory opening sequence does not tell us what befell them. No one speaks. There is no sound except an eerie musical theme. But these stunned faces are familiar to us. We see them every day on television, in newspaper and magazine photos. They haunt our century. And our anxious imaginings. For these are the faces of those whom cataclysm has inexplicably spared and who must now pass their borrowed time contemplating fate's enigmatic workings...