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(And by the way, the new car lyrics didn't even scan with the music, which reminds one of the inexorable commercial using E.Y. Harburg's "If I Only Had A Brain" with new lyrics that are sure to have the author spinning in his grave. Excuse the rant).

But first and foremost there needs to be a concerted effort on everyone's part to lift the mantle of victimization that permeates the air, smothers progress and is too often used to rationalize away the muck of the status quo and excuse the gravest acts of inhumanity.

"My dad always taught me not to make excuses," Graves said today, referring to his father, Henry.

That does not excuse Mr. Lindsay's grave errors or their troubling impact.

These problems are grave, but none of them is an excuse for keeping a billion people poor.

The only acceptable excuses for a subsequent decline are grave illness or other situation of equal magnitude.

There is no excuse for the failure to apologize for this grave transgression".

Western governments would be making a grave mistake if they invoked the difficulties of intervention as an excuse for abandoning them now.

In the end, Comey's conspicuous independence — for so long, his greatest asset — proved his undoing, making him too grave a threat to Trump but also giving the President a plausible excuse to fire him.

"Nothing can excuse this kind of behavior from a senior administration official of any administration, especially on matters of such grave importance," Mr. Grassley said.

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