"Amour" is about the love that binds these two wonderful people, and about sustaining that love in the shadow of death.

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Nature has a more restorative presence in "The Wind Will Carry Us" ("Bad ma ra khahad bord, " 1999), also about the beauty of life in the shadow of death.

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At this Easter season, British and Irish leaders have followed the admonition of Luke to give light to them who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death and to guide their feet into the way of peace.

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Retailers, of course, that wandered under the shadow of the Valley of Death .

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Before his death, Melanson published Rhodes-Hughes' statement in "Shadow Play, " a book he co-authored with William Klaber in 1997 and one of several Melanson wrote on the Robert Kennedy assassination.

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Yet despite the long shadow Lombardi still casts over the game 36 years after his death--he coached the Green Bay Packers to five titles in the 1960s--current National Football League coaches would be hard pressed to agree.

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Its looming shadow has since faded from the public eye, particularly with the death of bin Laden.

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Over it all, of course, hangs the long shadow of Iraq, which simply will not go away and was again underlined with the latest death of a British soldier in the south of the country.

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