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One wonders about a supposedly rehabilitative penal system that refuses to foster that kind of hope, that only pulverizes, exploits and, to cover its misdeeds, deletes.

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Officially, Rayner got sacked over personal financial misdeeds — she failed to pay adequate taxes on a second home — but any excuse would have done.

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They've promised to gather the names of those they said had close ties to Epstein and were connected to his misdeeds.

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But there are winners and losers and winners who feel like losers and schemers who get away with their misdeeds scot-free.

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Most important of all, it inverts the liberal narrative of history, in which the misdeeds of the past offer us important lessons, mistakes to be confronted, repented and transcended on the path to something better.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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