1.   And the Red Sox seem to have learned from past sins.

2.   Asher, they say, should not be made a scapegoat for past sins by police, here and elsewhere.

3.   All distant dreams and any past sins no longer mattered.

4.   Cash, who blames his past sins on no one but himself, does blame his current spate of bad dreams on working on the tell-all book.

5.   Cooperation with the United States might earn Pakistan a pardon for its past sins, say South Asia analysts.

6.   For all his chauvinism Frankel is not above faulting The Times for past sins of both commission and omission.

7.   Hoping to heal old wounds, the pope has apologized for past sins committed by Catholics against Orthodox believers, most notably while he was in Athens.

8.   In their belated zeal to address the past sins of managed health care, elected officials are ignoring the future market for HMOs.

9.   Indeed, the Senate debate was a venue for confessions of past sins, expressions of enduring pain and cries of a heritage erased.

10.   Indulgences are an ancient form of church-granted amnesty that release penitents from certain forms of punishment for past sins.