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8 million can't be disappointing, and the press is wailing about "disappointing" grosses to atone for overhyping the film.
Yakuza members, who are six times more numerous than American Mafiosi, hand out business cards with gang names printed on them and frequently sport amputated pinkies ("cut to atone for a misdeed").
"When and if I get home from Vietnam," he wrote a friend, "I'm going to divinity school to atone for my sins."
Pressed to accept a financial settlement that would have let the president off without so much as an apology, she is now adamant that Clinton be made to atone for calling her a "pathetic liar."
Also, a surprisingly favorable article about the Christian Coalition's campaign to recruit blacks and help rebuild burned black churches: This seems to be a truly sincere effort to atone for a history of white Christian racism.