In the end, I gave up and returned to Porto Alegre, embittered by the failure of my penitential trip.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Borges and the Eternal Orangutans'

Obama's penitential Cairo sermon betrayed those Middle Easterners who embraced our ideals, who struggled for human rights and democracy, suffering prison, torture and death.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The Obama Effect

Faced with customers irked that GOG, which was supposed to be their people, had indulged in a marketing stunt that seemed to show a Big Software disregard for their feelings, Rambourg and Iwinski doubled down on geeky, dressing as medieval monks to release a penitential apology.

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