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...possibly a murderer and a fixer of ball games. But if he did not want all that written down for posterity, he did not otherwise deny who and what he was. He flaunted his nature in the same way he flaunted his talent on the playing field -- with vicious abandon. His only virtue was his total lack of hypocrisy. His isolation when the cheering stopped was the price he proudly paid for greatness, and he would mouth no pieties to assuage his loneliness...
Then, and only then, will the voters who have stayed away from the ballot box because they have been forgotten send Newt and his pack of devils back home. Until then, look for the new sign in front of the Capitol building: "Abandon hope all yea who enter here...
...Clinton ran as an activist President and appears unlikely to abandon his agenda. Instead, he will need to radically reform the way he looks at issues...
Mothers (and fathers) have been killing and devouring their offspring since time immemorial. (Even Mother Harvard has been known to abandon...
...mission because he had 'gone native.' He peppers his accounts of missionary work with graphic narratives of the blood sacrifices and propiatiations of pagan idols in which he eagerly participated. While his sisters encourage him to celebrate Mass, he flings himself into a tribal rain dance with gay abandon. The man whom the village heralded as the vanguard of godliness turns out to have been a gin-addled apostate...