I took vacation time, and while he worked, I crawled through all my old haunts: down through Chelsea, SoHo, TriBeCa, the Village, over to Chinatown and Little Italy, up and over to the East Village, back up to the Flatiron District, up to the theater district, over to Hell's Kitchen, up and back over to Central Park.
As today's generation of political leaders prepares to fight an election that is in part a contest about the mistakes, judgments and assumptions Labour made in government on immigration, it is easy to forget just how much immigration and asylum haunted Downing Street throughout New Labour's time in office.
"They still carry a stigma here that can haunt families down through the generations.
Years later, on one of my weekend theater-district-haunting trips down from Yale (all the real men spent their weekends at Smith or Vassar), there, coming out of a restaurant, was the wonderful actor Ed Begley (Sr).. I'd just seen him as the loudmouth bigot in the film "Twelve Angry Men".
Pedro Castro told Savidge, "…it's going to haunt me down because people going to think, yeah, Pedro got something to do with this and Pedro don't have nothing to do with this.
Upon stopping off for a nightcap at a neighborhood haunt, we down our favorite mix of vodka or scotch or sake or burgundy or tequila or rum or millet beer, whereupon we say our mildly drunken and all-too-effusive goodbyes to head home to catch the latest news from Darfur or Kabul or Guatemala City or Jakarta or Caracas or Amman or Belfast, before closing our eyes for the night.
Like the swaggering ass that I am, I decided it would be a lark to spend two days on my own revisiting all my old Vegas haunts and facing down my demons.
She has, to date, employed a combination of reel-to-reel players, tape decks and samplers to record, and release bleary-eyed late-night music for driving down haunted highways on a number of labels such as Siltbreeze, Kraak, FatCat and her own Calico Corp imprint.
A more pleasant way for us today to revisit the 18th century is to visit the London haunts of Boswell – walk down the Strand, through the Temple and along Fleet Street, and pay a visit to Dr Johnson at No 17 Gough Square.
Completely covered by the fabrics, the mannequins make a haunting procession down the corridor, a seraglio mysteriously paying a visit to a New England factory.
A second outside adviser said that White House officials believed they could endure the political firestorm raging now but that they were concerned that giving up the privilege could come back to haunt them down the road.
