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...chauffeur discovered the liaison. Rushing into the Ambassador's office, where Kapitsa was using his couch as a bed, the infuriated husband clouted the diplomat on the head with a crowbar. He might have killed Kapitsa if aides had not come to his rescue. But the incident was forgiven because Kapitsa's expertise was needed...
While most directors willingly accept their additional responsibilities, they can be forgiven if they sometimes long for the days of the easygoing men's club. Wrote Robert Mueller, chairman of the Arthur D. Little consulting firm, in his book Behind the Boardroom Door: "At board meetings the one unmatched asset is the ability to yawn with your mouth closed...
...this stage, a Las Vegas gambler with a high technology crystal ball and the latest software might be forgiven for giving about 2 to I odds in favor of the stalemate scenario. But then, a Wall Street analyst convinced that the market was due to rise all but one year the superbow I has correctly foretold the course of the market for the year...
Three incumbents involved in scandals had seemed vulnerable, but at least one of them was forgiven by his constituents. Idaho Republican George Hansen, 54, had been convicted of filing false financial disclosure reports, and is appealing his five to 15-month prison sentence. His district's predominantly Republican voters had difficulty deciding whether they preferred a felon to a Democrat. Richard Stallings, 44, a college history professor, treated Hansen's crime obliquely in his campaign. "Some claim to be fiscal conservatives but their own lives do not attest to that," he said. "I stay out of debt...
...black man (Danny Glover) whom she redeems from rootlessness and petty crime, and by a blind man (John Malkovich) whom she redeems from bitterness. As these archetypes of disenfranchisement assemble in her kitchen, a bonding of proletarian fiction and gaslit theater takes place. And a wary customer may be forgiven for wondering if the shades of D.W. Griffith and John Steinbeck are warring for possession of Writer-Director Robert Benton's soul...