Word: redeemability
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...believe that a hard exterior invariably hides a sweet, yearning, essentially decent nature. The alternate idea--that toughness disguises nothing but more toughness--may be the more accurate take on reality. But it's also an intolerable one, especially in the movies, the basic business of which is to redeem us, for a couple of hours now and then, from our darker suspicions about human nature...
...revolution, defiance of authority is taken as prima facie evidence of a political action. Yet as political scientist Sheldon Wolin reminds us, the proper province of the political is the shared regulation of our common life--not the willy-nilly pursuit of private passions and interests. Generation X cannot redeem its shameful record of political apathy with concerts and parties...
...under 50%. That land grab initially provoked fears that a possible peace agreement was in danger of being wrecked. But by week's end, the Croat-Muslim federation had put the brakes on its offensive, and suddenly the Clinton Administration appeared tantalizingly close to a diplomatic triumph that could redeem its reputation both at home and abroad...
Potts had seemed to redeem himself last April, when he expertly handled the FBI's investigation of the Oklahoma City blast. But last week he came under renewed scrutiny after another FBI official, E. Michael Kahoe, admitted destroying documents collected during an internal investigation of the Ruby Ridge episode. Now congressional investigators must confront several questions: Did Kahoe act on the orders of a superior, possibly Potts? And did the destroyed papers contain the identity of the official who issued the shoot-on-sight order? At least one FBI agent has charged that Potts gave the signal. Potts insists...
...College in Florida--most students enrolled with the goals of transferring elsewhere. The college offered only a two-year program, leading to an Associate of Arts degree. The faculty of 12 was partly expatriate, the student body of 100 wholly international. My friends were there for many reasons (to redeem their high school performances, to kill time until the Fall.) It was there because I didn't want to deal with the GCE A Levels, which was the necessary pre-college exam for applicants form British-based education systems...