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...even this cannot redeem the novel’s slow start. Although the story is interesting, its themes of family conflict and a child’s longing for her absent father are not particularly original. And although the novel should be full of beautiful description, it leaves the reader wishing for a clearer picture of the homestead and the coastline of Portugal on which the story takes place...
...just discovered that clips from the ultimate bad-TV guilty-pleasure show, “MTV Undressed,” are available on the Net. I’ll redeem myself by saying that “Undressed” actually features decent indie music, increasingly a rarity for an MTV show. Where else on that now dumbed-down channel would you get to hear the New Duncan Imperials or Shivaree? Of course, they also play Ricky Martin and other unfortunate musical mistakes. So really I have no excuse...
Looking to redeem himself, Packard struck again at 8:16 but Kim was bowled in to the net, knocking it off its moorings only a fraction of a second before Packard's tally. Upon further review thanks to video replay, the referee recalled Packard's second would-be goal...
...challenged Prop. 21 in court: "In the old scheme, the defendant would get out when he was 25 years old. Prop. 21 says, 'Throw him in prison forever, no questions asked.' We need to ask if there's a middle ground." Determining whether a child is young enough to redeem himself may not be a numerical equation...
Yale opened the scoring in the second courtesy of an uncharacteristically shaky play by Jonas. But Jonas would redeem himself with a great save just twenty seconds later...