Word: apologia
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...only fair that we should take Ms. Guinier's own advice about how to deal with representing minorities--in this case the minority which has had quite enough of Ms. Guinier's oft-repeated apologia for her writings...
...sounds dry and disheartening, it is. Dawkins himself laments that people who read his work sometimes walk away feeling crestfallen and "depressed." And so, Dawkins' latest book, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder, resonates on a slightly more optimistic note. Although it is not an apologia for Dawkins' other books, it is a manual on how to read them. Dawkins contends that people habitually misconstrue science as deconstructive and demystifying. The average person, whose science background might not extend beyond a high school lab, has been programmed to set up a dichotomy of two domains...
Since Nichols and Clinton have socialized together, the movie was dismissed in advance as an apologia. As it turns out, the director's understanding of Clinton allowed him to create a presidential portrait that in many ways is more damning than any right-wing caricature, because it feels so real. Largely completed before America had heard of Lewinsky, the film comments on the scandal in ways that are downright eerie. Just as the public doesn't know what actually happened between Clinton and Monica--or Clinton and Gennifer Flowers, for that matter--so the movie refuses to spell out what...
...Crimson's precious jobs bill--without a huge tax increase. And who would bear the brunt of that? The very students who today read The Crimson. Maybe the Crimson editorial writers should look at how much more they'll pay in taxes before writing their next ill-founded liberal apologia. --William M. Jay '98 Parliamentarian, Harvard Republican Club
...White House's defense was -- well, defensive. Clinton's apologia basically was Congress made me do it. In truth, the heat from Capitol Hill could no longer be ignored. Although pressure was strongest from Republican conservatives who swept congressional elections last November, sentiments in favor of Lee were bipartisan: nonbinding resolutions for the visa passed both the House and Senate by nearly unanimous votes. While Clinton's advisers refused at first to budge on the issue, they began worrying about a Republican bill that would force their hands and, in effect, remove China policy from presidential control. In their view...