Word: forgiven
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...they were against. Longtime peace activists, they marched against the idea of going to war in Iraq. His father Joe says the family was always united in support of Ben, and once the war actually started the family stopped debating it. Joe adds that he has forgiven the person who took his son's life: "They are fighting for their country just like we are fighting for ours...
Pamela Lipson can be forgiven for sounding a bit like the announcer in that classic comedy sketch who praises a new miracle foam: Shimmer is a floor wax! And a dessert topping! Get Lipson going, and the 36-year-old co-founder and president of Imagen will gush about how her product can distinguish faces in a crowd, recommend makeup, diagnose diseases and spot imperfections on a circuit board. What Lipson's six-year-old company--a spin-off of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.)--really does is make software that can find subtle similarities and differences in images...
...trade between nations is to expand exports--a fallacy that was exploded, oh, sometime in the 1830s. The point of free trade is to allow economies to specialize in what they do best. Neither imports nor exports are intrinsically good or bad, though hard-pressed American consumers could be forgiven for wondering what a Commerce Secretary who wants to increase the prices of their shopping baskets at Wal-Mart has been smoking. (The giant retailer expects to buy $15 billion of products from China this year.) If the quota limits Wal-Mart's supply of goods, then the Chinese-made...
...hadn’t, Fitzpatrick probably would have never forgiven...
...NATO expansion, the ABM treaty, and the U.S. presence in Central Asia. Now you have NATO going into the Baltics, which had previously been a red line for Moscow. On Iraq, he joined France and Germany, but they were the bad guys and he knew he'd be forgiven. Still, at the same time he has his taboos. One is Chechnya, and another is the oligarchs. His message is, "I'll do what I want on my own turf." He has defined himself primarily by those against whom he is fighting. He has yet to define himself in positive terms...