Word: culpa
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...celebrity memoir, of course, is liable to allegations of self-promotion, but Blair’s story permits him one legitimate justification for publishing this nearly 300-page treatise: an apology. Blair does apologize, but he couches the mea culpa in so many excuses that he hardly seems repentant. Among his many rationalizations, Blair blames a hostile environment at the Times and an escalating addiction to cocaine. But readers would have more sympathy for Blair’s latter excuse, at least, if he didn’t seem to take pride in his vices. Responding to an editor...
...interview with FM in January, Kidd offered a candid mea culpa for the demise of SafetyWalk, blaming her inexperience for the oversight. “If I had been in charge of the safety committee last year, that simply would not have happened because I would have known to check in the fall,” she said...
...have your own history with stereotype, most particularly in the character Ebony White, a big-lipped, saucer-eyed African-American comedic sidekick to the Spirit. Although Ebony evolved with greater sensitivity in the latter half of the series' life, do you see "Fagin" as a kind of mea culpa...
...culpa was also about politics--an olive branch for the CIA. In an effort to put to rest the controversy about those 16 words, both Bush and Rice had pointed a finger at the agency, saying it had not conveyed its broad doubts about the intelligence. In response, the White House has been pelted with leaks (which Bush aides claim are coming from the CIA) that contradict Administration statements. By accepting some of the blame, the White House hopes to hush the family sniping. Some aides even welcomed the congressional report on intelligence failures at the CIA and FBI before...
Office Decoration Philosophy: Beautiful AND organized. Yes, now I feel ashamed at my own laziness. Mea culpa...