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...like to apologize for striking out with the bases loaded," said a genuinely repentent Rick Burleson. The crowd indicated that all was forgiven...
...grim, uneasy and almost anticlimactic milepost of history, Israel and Egypt formally accepted what U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger described as "the most sweeping document since Israel was made a state, a gigantic political agreement." If that was hyperbole, Kissinger could easily be forgiven. He had fathered the agreement and had cajoled, nudged and pressured both sides into accepting it. The Israelis were particularly resentful of that pressure and during the negotiations there was a coolness between them and the Americans that did not exist before. Beneath the veneer of friendship was a keen sense of hurt...
...injuries, of course, could merely be a coincidence−the breaks of the game. But fans and players alike could be forgiven for wondering if the cost of the trade off between preseason profits and reduced conditioning time is not out of balance...
...people in Boston are getting hysterical. Dubious, still, perhaps-last year's experience was too depressing. But give it a week or so. There's a run-off with the Yankees coming up, and soon it might be just like the days of sore. And all will be forgiven again...
...first Holy Year took place in 1300, when Pope Boniface VIII decreed a year known as the "Jubilee," after the Old Testament practice in which debts were forgiven every 50th year. In this case, however, the pardon was from penalties incurred through sin. In Catholic belief, the sinner was freed from eternal punishment (hell) through the sacrament of Penance. But temporal punishment (on earth or in purgatory) remained, and it could be removed in full by an indulgence granted to Holy Year pilgrims by the Pope, who controlled an "inexhaustible" treasury of the merits of Christ, Mary and the saints...