Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...others invest more than curiosity in the subject. "It's like touching evil, getting close to it," says Thomas Jackson, 34, of Port Huron, Michigan. Like thousands of people around the world, he eagerly corresponds with murderers like Gacy and Charles Manson. Some are drawn by the temptation to redeem lost souls. Dahmer, imprisoned for life in Wisconsin, has been showered by fans with Bibles and $12,000. Richard Ramirez, California's vicious "Night Stalker" who killed 13 people and is now at San Quentin, has a devoted following of women who write and visit...
Offense comes easily to the self-righteous. And this is an Administration bursting with self-righteousness. The conceit of Clinton's politics is that he and his wife have come with the virtue -- "idealism," it was called then -- of the '60s to redeem us from the "corrupt do-nothing values of the 1980s...
...gesture of "healing" and to waive his customary fee of $15,000 to $20,000. College officials expressed surprise when told of the offer and said it would violate their rule of ensuring administrators two weeks' notice of such appearances. He will have two broader opportunities to redeem himself, however, on Arsenio Hall's syndicated TV talk show Friday and in his annual Savior's Day speech in Chicago on Feb. 27. Many moderate black leaders hope, like Chavis, that Farrakhan will edge toward them, partly because of the good the Nation of Islam does and partly because...
...same, Vietnamese tend to believe that the return of Uncle Sam, offering strategic security with one hand and commercial goodwill with the other, will redeem a history of mutual mistakes. "Everyone I know is interested in doing business in Vietnam," says Hong Kong-based U.S. businessman Warren Williams. "Expectations on both sides are unrealistic. When I was there in the mid- to late '60s, the Vietnamese thought nothing would go right until the Americans got out. Now they say nothing will go right until the Americans come back. I thought they were wrong then, and I think they are wrong...
Shulman said Store 24 is the only market so far that has agreed to redeem the coupons, adding that he hopes to interest area pharmacies, restaurants and stores in the program...