Word: guilts
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...protagonist is a defense attorney who worries less about guilt and innocence than about exploiting technicalities and getting paid. Mickey Haller makes his living threading the loopholes of a tattered justice system, setting marijuana growers and fraud artists free—as long as the perpetrators can cough up the thousand-dollar fees...
...attempt to atone for the crime she has committed. It is her purgatory and almost—but not quite—her absolution. Set against the carnage and devastation of World War II, McEwan’s masterpiece is a tale of personal estrangement and shattered community, individual guilt and collective suffering, childhood, and war—and the survival of love in the midst...
...lyrical chronicle of the ways in which “guilt [refines] the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime,” “Atonement” is a breathtaking and heartbreaking exploration of the nature and bounds of humanity...
...going to have the type of stuff that happened [in 2002-03], where people start pointing fingers. I already see that that’s not going to happen, because we’re taking responsibility for stuff that happened wrong, and absolving each other of any guilt.”Whether the Crimson can absolve the referees for a call that may have cost the team a chance for its first 5-1 league start since 1997 is another question entirely. —Staff writer Caleb W. Peiffer can be reached at cpeiffer@fas.harvard.edu...
...fine by me, but the race seems to be between Hoffman and Ledger. Hoffman's Capote is a stunt, a caricature, the kind Oscar often rewards, but it's also a great performance. Ledger, his character's emotions so internalized he's nearly made mute by his passion and guilt, would dominate any other year. But in the leading actor categories, I have to go with the Huffman-Hoffman ticket...