Now the question is, will the public forgive him and turn out for his latest film, The Walt Disney Co.
To many people's surprise, it did turn out to be him, although it is still not clear if he was behind the force from the very beginning.
It would have been an amazing story and OJ's only premier-class win but Alex Barros, riding a 500cc Honda, wiped him out in turn one with three laps to go.
Imagine if in his country's moment of peril, instead of clinging to his alliance with Iran, Hizbullah, al-Qaida, and Hamas, Assad were to turn to Israel to help him out of this crisis?
And Mr Obama is desperate for this usually loyal group to turn out and vote for him.
That day we heard him composing what would turn out to be "Ruby, My Dear, " one of Monk's most admired signature compositions.
London middleweight DeGale, 22, has been offered big financial incentives to turn professional, which would rule him out of competing in the Olympics.
Even if few of them will now switch to support Mr Lazio, far fewer will feel provoked to turn out to vote against him.
The manhunt forced authorities to move Neal across the Panhandle -- by car and by boat, with the mob on their trail at every turn -- before they took him out of the state altogether, to the tiny town of Brewton, Alabama.
Napolitano, citing his advanced age, had repeatedly refused to be a candidate for another term that would see him turn nearly 95 when it runs out.
Others suggest he'll turn out to surprise those who paint him as a block to devolution.
But before he can elaborate, Glock sends him out of the room for talking out of turn.
Though flirting with reaction, Mr Hague may turn out to have embarked on a strategy which enables him eventually to defeat it.
If President Obama does turn out to be as ideologically rigid as many believe him to be, these necessary policies can be adopted by bipartisan, veto proof, Congressional majorities after the next mid-terms.
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It came as a terrible shock to him that the experience of an independent American production should turn out to be as heart-breaking as that of a film made in the Mosfilm studio.
I'm sure it's most disappointing for him that this would happen and kind of the game to turn out that way because of what happened.
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If there does turn out to be something nasty in the woodshed, his enemies will brand him as complacent or, worse, claim plausibly that his chosen image of prudence and iron resolve was a fake.
He went on to win a smashing re-election in 1984, survived the Iran-Contra scandal in his second term and closed out his presidency on a wave of popularity that allowed him to help turn the White House over to his vice president, George H.
The bone-head got overextended, ran out of money and had to ask his wife and kids to help him turn the company around.
So, when it came to Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy's turn, he was treated to the usual discourtesy of dozens of backbenchers walking out in front of him.
Seeing the down-and-out Oher, Leigh Anne started crying, demanded that her husband turn around and pick him up, and soon enough, the Tuohy family invited Oher into their home for good.
It looks like it's a dead heat, and as I just heard the Senator mention, and I agree with him, turnout is important, and like he, I want as many people to turn out as possible.
His early work in South Africa and Namibia studying termite mounds, prodigious natural chimneys of earth out of all proportion in size to the small termites that build them, did not turn him into a Darwin skeptic, by any means, but it did prod him to realize how important the role of environment is to the survival and flourishing of a species.
Things didn't turn out so well for the young inventor--Daedalus became jealous of his talent, and threw him off the top of the Acropolis.
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