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Asking to be forgiven and "accepted in the Lord's house," Jackson goes on the offensive, accusing some Jewish groups of staging an "organized effort to destroy this campaign...
...should be treated on the same basis as Christian and Muslim officers for promotions and other benefits. That seemed fair, except that some 800 Druze officers had failed to show up for army duty after the fighting in the Chouf Mountains began last September. Should their absence now be forgiven? Gemayel offered a compromise solution last week, but Jumblatt rejected...
...complexity of forgiveness involves the healing of the forgiver as well as the forgiven. By pardoning Mehmet Ali Agca, the Pope helped mend his own rent feelings. To this extent, forgiveness is both selfish and magnanimous...
...These include such offenses as despairing of salvation and obstinacy in sinning. As long as they persist, they are in some sense unforgivable. The doctrine raises interesting questions of unforgivability. If it had been 6 million Catholics who were exterminated in the Nazi death camps, would the Pope have forgiven Adolf Eichmann? Or would he have had Eichmann hunted down, taken to Rome for trial and executed, as the Jews brought Eichmann to Jerusalem for judgment and hanging...
...American people have never forgiven the press for Watergate-not because the press caused the situation, but because journalists reveled in it. Former President Nixon may have sealed his own fate, but the pursuit of him by the press was almost too cruel to witness. It was like dogs cornering a wounded hare...