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...tenets, for example, Virgil's brothers say their rage might not have worn off. Melvin was the angriest, and although he thought for years about revenge, he eventually immersed himself in his Christian faith, encouraging whites and blacks to attend each other's church services. James too has long forgiven Farley and Sims, but he says he found real meaning in Virgil's death one night years later, in the '60s, when his car got stuck in a ditch on the same dark Docena-Sandusky Road. Two young white men pulled up and approached him, "and I thought...
...Dixie Chicks had flaunted their treacherous, un-American ways by doing something wholly unpatriotic: criticizing a sitting president just before he launched an illegal, aggressive war. They could never be forgiven. Not after an emotional sit-down with Diane Sawyer. Not even after they appeared naked on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, to appeal to an even more visceral emotion than our patriotism...
Clearly, Baghdad Britney has two options, and they both involve magazine covers: pose nude and be forgiven, or end up like Uday and Qusay Hussein, smoked out of her Ba’ath loyalist safehouse in Tikrit...
...poor countries. Debt overhang was stifling their growth; and without growth, they would not in any case be able to repay what they owed. In 1996, the IMF and World Bank, together with the G-7, initiated a program of debt forgiveness, but in order to have their debts forgiven, countries had to meet a series of hurdles...
Twenty-four hours afterward, you could be forgiven for wondering whether Bombay's deadliest terrorist attack in a decade had really happened. The freshly scrubbed pavements around the Gateway to India were heaving once again with beggars, tourists and balloon sellers. Uptown in Zaveri Bazaar, the gold and silver traders had taken it upon themselves to bag up all the stray limbs, hair, teeth and fingers, boarded up their broken windows and opened for business. Commuters packed trains as usual, and the stock market soared to a 29-month high. The newspapers all but ignored the 52 people killed...