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Those words would haunt Hariri for the rest of his life. Seven weeks after his meeting in Damascus, he resigned. Almost four months after that, he was dead, assassinated on Valentine's Day in rebuilt downtown Beirut, the jewel of his political achievements, as he prepared to launch a bid to reclaim power and rid Lebanon of Syrian influence. In death, Hariri managed to obtain the prize he so desperately sought in the final months of his life. After his assassination a million Lebanese poured into the streets, galvanizing international opinion against Damascus and forcing the withdrawal of Syrian troops...
...time in a term, that their child's a troublemaker can push a small percentage of parents over the edge. The informed estimate is that there are as many as 2,000 cases a year in Australia of parents punching, pushing, threatening or verbally abusing school staff. Violence can haunt teachers even when they're not physically harmed. "After the bell one afternoon," recalls an infants teacher formerly based in inner-city Sydney, "a dad asked me how his son was going. I said he was a little restless, but it was near the end of term...
...only way I can be cleared is through the ethics committee, so they don't want one," DeLay told the Washington Times last week. But when the journalists asked DeLay whether he had ever crossed the line of ethical behavior, he gave an answer that could come back to haunt him. "Ever," he said, "is a very strong word." --With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr., Brian Bennett, Massimo Calabresi and John F. Dickerson/Washington
...that the Soviets are talking about human rights at all. Notes one senior U.S. official: "Everybody here can judge this country's approach to the enhancement of human rights, and they can judge the other side's. We'll let those judgments rest." The offensive may come back to haunt the Soviets. While it is intended to put the U.S. on the defensive, it also opens the way for a closer look at the issue of human rights, an examination that the U.S. can only welcome. --By Richard Stengel. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett/Washington and James O. Jackson/Moscow
...game progressed, the errors came back to haunt Harvard. After coming out blazing, the Crimson ended up with only a .240 hitting percentage for the frame as it stumbled to a 30-25 defeat and its second conference loss of the season...