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Clark committed the cardinal fielder's sin and let Bridich's grounder skip underneath his glove to score Mager and Portman...
...James' work, the experience of a sense of evil, melancholy or a powerful feeling of personal sin can motivate religious experience, he said...
...adultery become a litmus test for candidates. Among conservative Christians, a blemished past "is not a deal breaker," says Bell. What's important is how the candidate handles his own and others' transgressions. "One thing about Evangelicals," says a close adviser to George W. Bush, "they believe that without sin, redemption is not possible. And for them the issue is redemption...
Grandma warned about "living in sin." Ladies in her day had to be delicate about such matters, but with a voice full of foreboding she'd offer these words to the wise: "He's never going to buy the cow if he can get the milk for free." The cow, of course, was the one-carat rock, the white picket fence, the happily ever after...
...buying a leather coat just because it looks great on the model in the catalog. Impulse buys are almost always a bad deal. Sleep on those decisions, and you'll probably not spend the money. Credit cards compound the problem by making impulse buys less painful. Forneris' sin was giving away his valuable baseball the day he caught it. McGwire would have been just as pleased to get it the next day, or even the next week. You lose nothing by taking time to think. "The smartest thing the guy who caught No. 70 did was go home with...