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...President Jimmy Carter gave a speech renouncing America's "inordinate fear of communism." This line came to haunt Carter and established his reputation for global naivete. It is often contrasted with President Ronald Reagan's "evil empire" speech of 1983, although the two phrases are not logically contradictory. Carter didn't say inordinate moral revulsion from communism or inordinate military opposition to the Soviets. He said "fear," meaning an inordinate belief in the power of communism as a political and economic system...
...overt racism of the Bensonhurst kind is an aberration. Racism--News Flash--is not gone. Institutional racisms--racisms which are nobody's fault in particular, but which are more pernicious for going unseen-haunt our society...
...brush my teeth. In AP Bio last year, I had to kill thousands of fruit flies all in the name of science. We used to dump them, along with the blue medium they lived in, into this jar of alcohol called the morgue. Their spirits have come back to haunt...
...goal, while the Crimson began to scramble around. Brown's hits began to break through Harvard's defense and Harvard's own hits and passes were deflected. Harvard's defense smothered two of Brown's penalty corners as the Brown pressure continued, but this success would come back to haunt the Crimson...
Jobless benefits have come back to haunt George Bush -- and this time the President may find himself unable to worm away from the issue. Last week the House of Representatives passed a bill that would provide up to 20 extra weeks of unemployment compensation to the 2 million people who have run out of unemployment benefits since Jan. 1. Bush signed a similar bill last month, but it never became law because he refused to declare the budget emergency that was necessary for the measure to take effect...