And if he does not, it will be a taint that will be hard to erase.

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For the children of New Orleans the horrors of Hurricane Katrina are hard to erase, even two years later.

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But the killing of Amadou Ahmed Diallo will be extremely hard to erase.

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These will be hard to erase even if new primary rules, which came into effect in time for votes on June 5th, succeed in making races more competitive (the jury is still out on this).

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But for those who have lived through the Enron era, it will be hard to erase images of L. Dennis Kozlowki 's lavish party in Sardinia, complete with an ice replica of Michelangelo's David dispensing liquor from his .

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But most Palestinians have surely learned the hard way that they cannot erase Israel by force, just as this intifada seems at last to have taught Mr Sharon, the hard way, that he cannot erase the national dream of the Palestinians by force.

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Eventually, the technicians had to use a software tool called BCWipe to completely erase the GCS' internal hard drives.

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