Word: culpa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where does it all end? Possibly in a book. But Genovese plans no lengthy personal confessional, no breast-beating update of The God That Failed (1949), a book of essays by ex-communists that is best remembered for Arthur Koestler's mea culpa. He says he will return to the debate only if the discussion on the left stays alive. For him, the bottom line remains: the Question deserves an Answer...
...doubt the legal department okayed this wording, and since then the company has followed up this exploratory mea culpa with an entire ad campaign called Straight Talk. The ads are filmed in black and white and resemble old Bergman movies, but the characters are not actors. They are living stockbrokers and other Prudential employees, including Mr. Simmons, who appears in several. The camera gets so close you can almost count his fillings...
...what little it knew about Whitewater, and was not prepared to grant Hillary the automatic benefit of the doubt she seemed to expect. "She's still in the mode of saying, 'I didn't do anything wrong,' " said a White House source. "So why should she do a mea culpa?" Said the First Lady last week: "I have to admit, for the last two years I was bewildered by people's interest in this. It happened many years...
Russian Mea Culpa...
...performance won her the lasting loyalty of her own department. "She stood up and took a bullet for us," a veteran FBI agent says. But Reno may pay a political price. Much was made at the time of the contrast between her mea culpa and that of President Clinton, who vanished for hours before surfacing to claim responsibility. That contrast, which owes as much to Clinton's instincts as to hers, could strain the relationship between Reno and her boss. As supportive as he has been, and as grateful for having at least one folk hero in his Cabinet, Clinton...