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...forgiveness for wife abuse, child abandonment, infidelity and, apparently equal to the rest, insensitivity. In one whopping convention in Washington on Oct. 4, hundreds of thousands of them pledged their devotion to Jesus, family and one another. Their exhibition of mass apology seemed a down-home version of a wider impulse that has affected whole nations of late. France reiterated its apology for its treacherous and murderous treatment of French Jews under Vichy. The U.S., led by the President, apologized for slavery. Mass guilt, which used to be thought of as a convenient way out of individual responsibility...
...Larry King, Letterman and Today to seek redemption by exposure? There was an exchange on the Today interview with Katie Couric that could be read as the clarifying moment of the entire century, let alone the past year, when Couric asked Marv why anyone should believe his version of the sordid events when he had already admitted lying to his former wife and fiance. Albert said, in effect, that while that was so, he would never lie on television...
...pictures that NASA's Mars Sojourner sent home were some of the most emotionally complicated of the year. The scenery may not be much, but as we know from photographs of the Old West, which Pathfinder's greatly resemble, no-man's-land has always been America's fallback version of paradise--if not Eden, at least a new proving ground. So those Martian postcards may show nothing in particular, but for the imagination operating in forward thrust they are plausible glimpses of heaven...
Microsoft?s Choice In complying with a judge?s unbundling order, Microsoft is offering PC makers an out-of-date version of Windows 95. DOJ sources say they're violating the spirit of the law. Is a new showdown looming? Full Story Take our Microsoft poll (Web users only...
DIED. STEVE HAMILTON, 62, Yankee relief pitcher who patented baseball's version of the lob, the "Folly Floater"; of colon cancer; in Morehead...