Word: forgiven
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...race at all, just a solitary Mongolian inching along the track. Otgonbayar, the 22-year-old daughter of camel and sheep herders, didn't so much run into the historic stadium as microshuffle in, with a gait so unhurried that the thousands of cheering spectators could be forgiven for thinking the world had paused or, at the very least, shifted into super slo-mo. "The sound of all the clapping from the fans pushed me forward, and I felt like I was running very fast," says Otgonbayar, who ended her race with a time of 3:48:42, half...
...whether he's forgiven himself for his mistakes...
Americans could be forgiven for wondering, given the confused, conflicting signals the government sent with its latest terrorism alert. Besides asking citizens to be on the lookout for Gadahn and six other alleged al-Qaeda associates, Ashcroft repeated the claim of an al-Qaeda--related group that preparations for a massive attack inside the U.S. were "90%" done, although he acknowledged that officials had not picked up any specifics about a plot. Intelligence officials questioned the credibility of the group but insisted there was ample support for Ashcroft's warning. The same day that Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller...
...documentary style what became of the lads, even providing a violent death. That's an odd exclamation point to a Bennett sentence that should end in ellipsis. It's as if he was afraid his students in the audience were too dull to get the point. Bennett can be forgiven the polemic, for he has brought to brilliant life a dozen original characters: four adults (including Frances de la Tour as a teacher who says history is simply "centuries of male ineptitude" and "women behind them, with a bucket") and the eight boys, each smartly defined, each bright, each needy...
...semi-reluctantly drives Nancy to Pacifica in order to spy on Ben, a man who writes obsessive love letters to a woman he thinks lives at Nancy's apartment. If the structure seems a bit amateurish - it has a few too many talky interludes and lucky coincidences - all is forgiven by the deep characterization. Simon and Nancy feel real, with complex, sympathetic personalities that make them compelling in spite of their self-absorption...