Word: forgiven
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Remark: But her ex-lover's wife hasn't forgiven her. Grade...
...have thought now and then about the black Alabama schoolteacher's forgiveness of Wallace. Was she merely gullible, I've wondered, or was something deeper at work? The truth of forgiveness is that its benefits--a healing sweetness--may accrue more to the forgiver than to the forgiven. If blacks could bring themselves to forgive George Wallace, pain-racked in his wheelchair, then was there not, in the forgiveness, a small but real moment of liberation all around...
WILLIAM KRISTOL: "Republicans have old-fashioned extramarital affairs with other adults. Those really are moral lapses that are private and more easily forgiven and very different from taking advantage of a young person who works for you when you're President...
...Could outright absolution be next? There's no sign yet that Mrs. Clinton plans to publicly forgive her wayward spouse, but there's little doubt in the White House that public absolution from her would be the ultimate weapon: Hillary has forgiven him, the spin would go -- once again -- so why can't Congress? Now would be a good time to strike, with polls showing growing public disquiet over the House's handling of possible impeachment hearings. Expect more attacks from the First Lady soon; she's not one to be passive with her tenure at stake. If her husband...
What about the fact that the President lied, people ask? Well, even if he did, he should be forgiven. Put yourself in his shoes. You have an affair. You are asked about it in public, in front of your family, in front of the entire country. You have two choices: tell the truth and forever change your relationship with your loved ones; or lie, and hope to get away with...