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...South Korea normalized relations in 1965: Korea seized 300 ships (mostly fishing boats), and made 4,000 arrests, resulting in one Japanese death and dozens of injuries. When the countries finally formalized ties, they excluded mention of the islands from the treaty-an act of expediency that continues to haunt them...
...plate in the first without landing a hit, but scored one run with the help of two hit batsmen, an error, a walk, and a fielder’s choice. Fortunately for the Harvard team, the three men left on base would did not come back to haunt it. “We had [Penn starter Michael Gibbons] on the ropes,” Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. “I wanted to get into the pen in the first inning, since with two games teams want to stick with their starters longer.” The Crimson...
...gave it a macabre twist. In My Life as a Fake, he reimagined Australia's infamous Ern Malley affair - the 1944 literary hoax played by antimodernists Harold Stewart and James McAuley, who posed as a dead working-class poetic "genius" - by bringing a fabricated identity to life to haunt its creator. The novel's sprawling narrative was as gin-soaked and overripe as its Kuala Lumpur setting, but Carey's theme was sobering: how can we test the merit of a literary work...
...question is: Will Bay Area residents pay attention to what these public-spirited researchers say? The ghost of Hurricane Katrina, no less than that of 1906, will haunt the centennial as it gets under way. "Katrina has shown us what a $100 billion--plus disaster looks like, the kind of disaster no one wanted to talk about before," says Chris Poland, chief executive of Degenkolb Engineers and chairman of the conference. "It's shown us what happens when you damage a community so much that its economy stops...
...Shays didn't just support the war; he's been to Iraq 11 times since the U.S. invasion and frequently raves about the burgeoning democracy there. But those trips could come back to haunt Shays this fall. His Democratic challenger, Dianne Farrell, who surprised political observers by losing by only 4 points to Shays in 2004, has made Shays' support of President Bush's war the centerpiece of her campaign. Her campaign may well prove to be a referendum on her party's prospects for taking back control of the House. If they want to have any shot...