Word: hauntedness
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Peter Flood, the hero, is a labor racketeer because that is the family business. His slick cousin Michael is a union boss in South Philadelphia, where, as the author tells it, the Irish run the unions and the Italians own the streets. Peter's life is haunted by the death...
Earlier this year, gun-control advocates won a rare victory on Capitol Hill when the House endorsed a seven-day waiting period during which police may check the backgrounds of prospective handgun purchasers. They argued that the ban on domestic semiautomatics and the restriction of magazines containing more than seven...
No matter what the confusing confrontation between Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill may have obscured, it left one thing clear: the U.S. is still haunted by powerful racial and sexual myths. After Hill's charges burst into print, Thomas and his supporters equated her claims with the lynchings of thousands...
Recovery is not easy. The messages my mother filled me with had to be replaced with self-esteem. It is a tedious task. For me it involved five weeks of intensive treatment and many hours of outpatient therapy. At times I have felt enraged that I have to endure such...
Why, then, when he was doing so much good for so many, did he turn his back on the generation of tomorrow? For something he considers even more important. His latest album, Evergreen Everblue, is not merely inappropriate for toddlers; it is a warning screech of apocalypse. Its cover portrays...