Word: culpa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When readers of the New York Times glanced at the paper one morning last week, coffee cups rattled and bleary eyes widened. There, across two columns at the top of Page One, was an extraordinary mea culpa: A CORRECTION: TIMES WAS IN ERROR ON NORTH'S SECRET-FUND TESTIMONY. Two days earlier the Times had reported that Lieut. Colonel Oliver North testified that the late CIA Director William Casey wanted to use the profits from arms sales to Iran to set up a covert-operations fund that would be kept secret from Ronald Reagan. In fact, North testified only that...
...Hart acted worse than any other candidate; indeed, he even seemed slightly embarrassed by what he was doing. And perhaps this piece is a mea culpa for my own participation in the media event. In a story I wrote for the Crimson last week. I almost completely ignored the shelter, writing about the politics of a Hart and Dukakis presidential bid and about Hart's speech on student...
Goldwater's uncompromising libertarianism was appealing enough to both small-town Republicans and big-city wheeler-dealers to give him the 1964 presidential nomination, although he was crushed in a landslide of historic proportions. Today he sees it all as a kind of felix culpa, a happy fall. "It never bothered me. We accomplished what we wanted to accomplish. We broke the Eastern Establishment's hold on the G.O.P. We moved it westward." The campaign also inspired another Western conservative by the name of Ronald Reagan...
...critics are raising their voices. Among them is the mayor's least likely detractor: himself. After a flood of revelations about corruption in New York City government, the feisty Koch came forth last week with an uncharacteristic mea culpa. Said he: "I am embarrassed. I am chagrined. I am absolutely mortified that this kind of corruption could have existed and that I did not know...
...political gains may have been only temporary. Despite Reagan's mea culpa, the findings of the commission, which was chaired by retired Navy Admiral Robert L. J. Long,- will not be easily shrugged off. In effect, the report concluded that the Marines are engaged in a Mission Impossible. On one hand, they are unable to pose as neutral peace-keepers because the U.S. has sided militarily with the rickety central government of Amin Gemayel. On the other, they are too few in number (1,800) and too restricted in their operations (never firing unless fired upon) to be much...