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What is more disturbing is that leaders such as Museveni and Kagame came to power on the back of revolutions meant to right the past's wrongs.
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Every corner of Cambodia has some remnant of the past's violence, its history indelibly stained with blood.
Peter Winter: Chasing Demons: Visiting Pol Pot's Grave Peter Winter 2011
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Every corner of Cambodia has some remnant of the past's violence, its history indelibly stained with blood.
Peter Winter: Chasing Demons: Visiting Pol Pot's Grave Peter Winter 2011
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His grim, dark cave, concealing a tiny, rose-hued metropolis, speaks of memory's distortions and the past's grip.
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Those of us who tell stories are committed slaves to the past's dominion, to the fresh echo of the little bell which announced M. Swann's arrival ....
O'Hagan novel narrated by lap dog may leave readers eyeing a muzzle Louis Bayard 2010
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They still have the power to tempt us out of our indifference, to engage us anew in the past's sweet cheats.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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The past's youthful misbehaviors -- on YouTube or MySpace or some such -- can always pop up to haunt the reputable present.
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In the second, however, a formal feeling is achieved: the letter becomes a flare that illuminates the past's darkness.
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Those of us who tell stories are committed slaves to the past's dominion, to the fresh echo of the little bell which announced M. Swann's arrival ....
O'Hagan novel narrated by lap dog may leave readers eyeing a muzzle Louis Bayard 2010
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While we're united now, that particular past's hardly done with its dirty work.
Andrew Belonsky: Should American History Incorporate the Confederacy? 2009
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