Word: forgiven
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...only off-putting thing is the menu's achingly earnest foreword-cum-manifesto: "We strive to raise awareness of a more sustainable food future ..." But that's quickly forgiven once the consistently fine food is on the table. And all the preachiness is totally forgotten by dessert. The heavenly sweets?hot chocolate soup, a "conversation" of apple tarts and sorbet?are listed on the menu under the utterly appropriate heading "Encore." That's exactly what you'll be cheering after a couple of hours in the Dressing Room...
...greens like kale have settled in for the winter, and you won't see another heirloom tomato until next spring. The only off-putting thing is the menu's achingly earnest foreword-cum-manifesto: "We strive to raise awareness of a more sustainable food future ..." But that's quickly forgiven once the consistently fine food is on the table. And all the preachiness is totally forgotten by dessert. The heavenly sweets - hot chocolate soup, a "conversation" of apple tarts and sorbet - are listed on the menu under the utterly appropriate heading "Encore." That's exactly what you'll be cheering...
...Even those who say they would have been willing to give Sgt. Cardona the benefit of the doubt, quickly add that his presence in Iraq was a bad idea. "He was convicted and punished for his acts, and even the Islamic Sharia'a says he should be forgiven," says Hussain al-Musawi, who heads the Shi'ite Political Council, an influential group within the Shi'ite coalition that dominates the Iraqi parliament. "But I don't think that the Iraqi government should allow him to enter the country-I think it will do whatever necessary to prevent that...
...Harris’ musical experiments aren’t always unqualified successes, he can be forgiven for his overextension; the pressure to innovate surely weighs heavily on his shoulders. No era of jazz ever includes more than a few great vibraphonists, and now, with musicians like Steve Nelson doing their best playing as sidemen, and with greats like Bobby Hutcherson decades past their most important work, Harris has taken up the mantle of jazz’s highest-profile practitioner of the instrument and all of the expectation that comes with...
...trained motor mechanic with calloused hands and a penchant for automotive analogies, Waddah can be forgiven for thinking that trouble has been following him around for more than three years. In the spring of 2003, when it became clear that the U.S.-led coalition would invade Iraq, he and his family--his mother Haseeba, three brothers, their wives and six children--sold his late father's house near Basra and moved to his mother's ancestral home in a quiet, dusty town west of Baghdad: Fallujah. "We were sure that there would be no fighting there. The Americans would...