Word: forgiven
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard should not have prolonged Grant's punishment by revoking her admission. In doing so, Harvard sent a dangerous message that child offenders can never be truly forgiven for their crimes, and it lost the opportunity to admit a student who likely would have excelled here...
...sure, Grant's crime, committed at the age of 14, was not necessarily so brutal that it can never be forgiven. At the time of the murder, Grant was living with a verbally abusive, alcoholic parent. Moreover, since her release, she has made great strides toward rehabilitating herself, through three-and-a-half academically successful years in high school...
...parents may be forgiven for viewing their children as miracles, but none more so than Betsy and Leonard Jernigan Jr. One day when their baby Elizabeth was about four months old, her right eyelid began to weaken a bit; the pupil seemed slow to respond to light. Such small signs, and they came and went; she seemed happy and healthy, so her parents expected that the problem would clear up by itself...
Readers of the New York Times could be forgiven for thinking that California's economy is in free fall, that illegal immigrants to the state are more often harassed than employed, and that our police chief takes orders from Satan and not Mayor Richard Riordan...
Zedillo, who was hurriedly designated the P.R.I.'s presidential candidate last year after the party's first choice, Luis Donaldo Colosio, was assassinated, could be forgiven if he feels as if he has fallen through a trapdoor. He took office a few days before a financial crisis erupted that his predecessor, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, had done little to prepare either Zedillo or the nation for. But Zedillo's performance so far has not reassured the foreign-government officials and financiers who will have to bail Mexico out. The Clinton Administration, says a Senate staff member who regularly deals with...