The critics have voiced objections to what they perceive as an unduly hasty act of forgiveness.
Where Ms Didion distilled her trauma into an artfully melancholic meditation on symbiosis lost, Ms Oates's book feels more like a hasty act of personal therapy.
Today, he is devoting far more time to defending his self-proclaimed reputation for clean government, which his hasty act has called into doubt.
The families speak the language of their new universe, this complex world sprung fully formed from one hasty Congressional act.
* Clarke retreats on house arrest powers * Times: Clarke uses terror threat to justify ending 800 years of legal history * Telegraph: A hasty, illiberal act with unknown consequences * Sun: 'Terror ten' to be freed KEN DOESN'T SAY SORRY The Ken Livingstone non-apology story drags on for yet another day, with the papers wearily churning out yet more newsprint on the subject.
Would the media bait President Reagan and pressure him into the kind of hasty retaliatory act that he seems determined to avoid?
"I advise the Saudi leaders to stop these subversive, hasty, illogical, emotional acts that are marked by mismanagement," he was quoted as saying by the state-run Press TV.
"I advise the Saudi leaders to stop these subversive, hasty, illogical, emotional acts that are marked by mismanagement," said Jahangiri, according to a transcript provided by Iranian media outlet Press TV.
But set aside the bold-leadership factor, as well as the cleverness of changing the subject from F.B.I.-C.I.A. warfare and the need to stampede Congress into another hasty "U.S.A. Patriot" Act.
The great instrument of climate change, though, never to be forgotten by those of us who were there, was Britain's very own Rainmaker, Denis Howell, who was finally appointed minister of drought co-ordination by Jim Callaghan under the hasty new Drought Act.
