Word: forgiven
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...Schmidt has deep roots in the tech industry. He was Sun?s chief technology officer but left to join Novell as CEO in 1997. If you don?t remember Novell, you?re forgiven. They?re the guys who owned WordPerfect and, like Sun, were eventually stomped by Bill Gates?s big boots. Since joining Google as its CEO in 2001, Schmidt has presided over huge growth, and all that cash has fueled forays into Microsoft territory, with applications like desktop search and Gmail...
...been seven full years since Pete Schourek, a former professional baseball pitcher, meant anything to anybody. If you’ve forgotten his name, you’ll be temporarily forgiven...
What with Stealth and the role he's currently shooting--the poker-playing John Dylan in Poseidon, a remake of The Poseidon Adventure--you could be forgiven for thinking he's action movies' Next Big Thing. But Lucas, wearing a platinum Gucci ring that washed up in the backyard of his Los Angeles rental during the winter rains, thinks of it more as being at the top of one of the cycles of his career. "I actually started to hit a little bit when I was young," he says, twirling a stack of poker chips in his hand...
Despite his odd off-screen romance with starlet Katie Holmes, it’s impossible to dislike Cruise, and his character’s shortcomings as a parent are quickly forgiven once people start dying. His children continue to oppose him in the movie, though, and you frequently wish that he’d just ditch them, or at least put a muzzle on Fanning to stop the shrieking...
...supporters in every state, whom he can begin early to shape into the kind of national organization he had to jerry-build from scratch in 1984. But Hart is also the only candidate bearing scars from the last race. Organized labor, a powerful force in the party, has not forgiven his attacks on "special interests" backing his ultimately successful rival for the presidential nomination, Walter Mondale. In addition, he struck many voters as a paradoxical combination of cold, aloof technocrat and movie star manqué who let his unexpected victories in early primaries go to his head...