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Even at that point, all might have been forgiven. For this kind of thing, believe it or not, happens all the time on the Internet -- although not usually on this scale. People make mistakes. Their errors are pointed out. The underlying issues are thrashed out. And either a consensus is reached or the combatants exhaust themselves and retire from the field...
...surrender, like the Imam Shamil," says one Chechen who fought alongside Maskhadov in the mid-1990s, recalling the legendary 19th century Chechen guerrilla who lived comfortably in Russian exile. "He was a difficult man, hard to read and closed. But we have forgiven him." Kavkaz Chat, a website funded by radical Islamists, had little time for Maskhadov when he was alive. Within hours of his death, however, it was deluged with hundreds of messages hailing him as a national hero and shahid, or martyr, for Islam. Radical guerrilla leaders added a twist to the message. Maskhadov's death, their chief...
...Billboard Rap Charts this week. I’m not sure there’s a bad song in the bunch, except for 50 Cent’s “Candy Shop.” But all’s forgiven though because that dude’s had a hard week what with the shootings, the launch of the G-Unity Foundation, and the New York Times comparing him to the author of What’s the Matter With Kansas. Which is worse...
...true that some "enemies" may have been "rehabilitated" after being accused of political crimes. (After the Cultural Revolution, both Deng Xiaoping and Zhao had their verdicts reversed.) But the Party's historical forgetting has tended to be selective and opportunistic. Not to be so readily forgotten (or forgiven) is the predatory history of the West toward China or Japan's brutal occupation of the country. These the Party tirelessly remembers and flogs, because it serves its purposes...
...baller status” for high-schoolers everywhere. If he would swim to The OC from Portland wearing Speedos and a swim cap or emerge from the pool at one of Cal’s parties (again, in a Speedo and swim cap), all the unreasonable episodes would be forgiven...