Word: redeemability
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...rich Missouri countryside, yet he is almost too proud of his ability to capture these scenes on film. While he tries to establish a distinction between active battle and quiet days at camp, each fade-out is one more step away from the film's chance to redeem itself with a coherent story line. Hints of Lee's genius as a director do show in his later battle scenes, where the rhythmic beating of horse hooves and the jarring sounds of gunfire conjure images of a Remmington painting...
...Barring a major upset on either side of the draw, however, Harvard should get a chance to redeem itself in the finals against Dartmouth...
...still loves his brother. He has written him repeatedly, offering at least one apology, but Ted has not answered. In order to gain forgiveness, Ted writes, David must renounce the "lies" he has told about Ted, leave his wife and remove himself from modern society. "If he does not redeem himself," Ted adds, "then as far as I am concerned he is the lowest sort of scum, and the sooner he dies, the better...
...Browns are not good. This is an accepted fact of life. Nevertheless, I don't think there's any need to insult them with a spread of 17.5. I'm going to pick the Browns to redeem themselves, at the expense of the JAGUARS...
...arguing that America did not have to take on Hitler, Bush appeased him, explaining that "I need all the votes" he could get. While McCain says he is running "because I owe America more than she has ever owed me," Bush sometimes seems motivated by a need to redeem his father's defeat. He keeps bringing it up in a way that suggests it has been his life's deepest wound. Last Wednesday he said that Buchanan's 1992 candidacy had had a role in derailing his father, and suggested that Ross Perot carried a "vendetta" against his family...