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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").
There is even greater irony in the reports that management will atone for its sins with a $176 million payment to black employees--all of which will come directly from the pockets of those now doubly victimized stockholders.
Perhaps to atone for all the repeats we've endured in the past month, this week the networks are wheeling out new episodes of The X Files , The Simpsons , Everybody Loves Raymond , King of the Hill , The King of Queens , Law & Order , 3rd Rock , Ally McBeal , Melrose Place , Homicide , NYPD Blue . ...
8 million can't be disappointing, and the press is wailing about "disappointing" grosses to atone for overhyping the film.
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.