Many have made profound sacrifices to uphold the ideals we cherish, carrying wounds that may never fully heal and dark memories that will never fade.

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In the front row Phil Vickery scares the Aussies and his return will bring back dark memories of past batterings - they will be fearing a repeat.

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The name "Manuel Noriega" conjures dark memories for most Panamanians.

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Even as these dark memories linger, though, Laos is poised to follow a path traveled by its neighbors Vietnam and Cambodia, both now hot spots of a different sort: on the tourism map.

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Anyways, living room co-op on consoles is fun, and fond memories of the Dark Alliance games give me nostalgic barrels of hope for Realms of Ancient War.

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At such times, the house would close in around her, dark, damp, utterly still, and yet busy with the echoes and memories of those who had gone before, generation upon generation of Lowes, all dark-eyed and stocky and taciturn, watching her from the shadows, listening when she spoke on the phone: listening, watching, judging.

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They can even interrupt the trial to remind the jury that, say, a witness who has been put under stress of having a gun put to his head in a dark hallway might not be capable of making the correct identification, or that memories fade rapidly a few hours after a crime has been committed.

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"Random Access Memories" almost became an opus along the lines of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" or Prince's "LoveSexy, " the latter formatted as one long track.

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