Word: forgiven
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...response was typical. After Willie was chosen by the color of his skin, all was apparently forgiven. "We've got our Black," they seemed to say. Self-appointed Black leaders called for all to be forgotten. You may argue that color was a factor in the admission of white members too. But this is a very exclusive club. It is not open to all whites. Not even all whites with...
From there it is a short step for athletes to believe they can ignore the rules in everyday life as well. Society conspires in that belief. Sports stars move in a rarefied world of privilege where good grades, money, drugs and sex are readily available and transgressions are easily forgiven. "After all, the group-think rationale goes, rules are for others, not for heroes," points out psychologist Toni Farrenkopf of Portland, Ore. Communities are outraged when minority youths are involved in sexual assaults, but when revered athletes are implicated, the response is commonly a tut-tutted "Boys will be boys...
...another case, Bush sought a $900,000 line of credit on behalf of developer Kenneth Good, who several years earlier had given Bush a $100,000 no-risk loan that was eventually forgiven. "I know it sounds a little fishy," Bush testified. "The loan ((from Good)) was never meant to be repaid unless there was a success" in a commodities venture in which Bush took part. Federal thrift regulators, who question young Bush's explanations, are seeking an order barring him from repeating any such conflicts. Moreover, he may face civil suits from Silverado's depositors. While the younger Bush...
...THAT CRUMB OFF THE TABLE. George Bush has still not forgiven Dick Gephardt for his personal crusade against capital-gains tax cuts last year. So it was no surprise when congressional leaders were summoned to the White House and the House majority leader didn't get an invitation. Mindful of the snubbing, Speaker Tom Foley has named Gephardt to lead the congressional conferees at the budget summit, so whenever Bush is present he will have to face his least favorite politician...
...starters, his definition of gay discrimination issues as "centering around morality and sexuality" is only half right. Thanks, but no thanks for the inclusion of morality. Heterosexists are the only folks who ever question whether gays, lesbians and bisexuals are right or wrong, natural or unnatural, forgiven or damned to hell, in our acceptance and proclamation of our sexualities...