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...Taliban capitalized on widespread disgust with their savagery, eventually coming to power in 1996. The U.S., unwilling to commit large numbers of ground troops when it went to overthrow the Taliban government, relied instead on the northern warlords and their militias. In a grave mistake that was to haunt Afghanistan for years to come, many of those leaders were given prominent positions when the new Afghan government was formed, enabling them to claw back credibility that had been lost due to their abhorrent behavior in the civil war. Samimi laments the lost opportunity for Afghanistan to start over. "Right after...
Such cuts may help the short-term bottom line but can haunt companies down the road. "Stopping those payments can be a violation of an implicit contract, and that can affect people's sense of loyalty," says Stacey Kole, an expert on human-resources management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. "It's a natural trigger for people to look outside for alternative jobs." And employees remember such slights. "If you cheat me today," Kole says, "I'll remember that when I have options to go elsewhere...
...ever need me call, I will be there waiting when you fall, You know I will / I love you, I love you, I love you…” And yet, despite the seemingly optimistic bent of the track, Healy’s final words linger and haunt as he asks what went wrong: “In the days before you were young / We used to sit in the morning sun/ And turn the radio on / What happened?”And what did happen to Travis, the compatriots of Coldplay, the band...
...Brown and expect to survive it,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said after that loss. “That missed extra point was huge,” Brown coach Phil Estes said. “You say to yourself ‘that will come back to haunt them.’” With 20-20 hindsight, that 24-22 loss to the Bears could be the difference-maker in terms of a Crimson Ivy championship repeat—though Brown’s loss to Yale Saturday affords Harvard a shot at a share...
...light some incense and figure out what its members really believe in when it comes to putting their principles into practice. The legacy of a President who vastly expanded the national debt, the size of government and its reach into what was once called private enterprise is likely to haunt his party for a generation to come...