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...NETHERLANDS Mea Culpa An independent report into the 1995 Srebrenica massacre blamed Bosnian Serb forces led by General Ratko Mladic for the deaths of up to 8,000 Muslim men, but it also strongly criticized Dutch peacekeeping forces and political leaders. After a few days' reflection, the entire Dutch government resigned. Prime Minister Wim Kok said the international community "is anonymous and cannot take responsibility in the name of the victims and survivors of Srebrenica...
First, the institutional church has to acknowledge the magnitude of the damage. The Pope's cryptic paragraphs at the end of his Holy Thursday letter to priests hardly constituted a ringing mea culpa. At a stiff press conference afterward, Dario Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos, a contender for the next pontificate, short-circuited the avalanche of questions with a sample of Vatican stonewalling, sternly defending current policy. Citing the "serious and severe" internal rules the church has applied to pedophile priests, the Cardinal looked up from his text and asked what other institutions had such guidelines. "I would like to know...
...examination of Schulz's line, both as he originally drew it and as it reproduced in newspaper print. One page has just Charlie Brown's head in extreme close-up, the better to see the attack and fade of Schulz's elegantly simple penwork. So here's my mea culpa for the "crudely drawn" comment. The book makes it clear that Schulz was a cartoonist's cartoonist. His dedication and natural talent for the daily gag strip format has no equal...
...confronted by an incomprehensible horror, Tinseltown's heavies usually throw up their hands and cry, "Not our fault!" The events of Sept. 11 have proved a strange exception. Last week ROBERT ALTMAN, director of the satires MASH, The Player and Dr. T and the Women, almost offered a mea culpa. "The movies set the pattern, and [the terrorists] have copied the movies," he said. "Nobody would have thought to commit an atrocity like that unless they'd seen it in a movie." That self-flagellation comes on the heels of remarks by JFK director OLIVER STONE in which he called...
...Time Inc.'s--informing me that my e-mail was being returned unopened since it contained a virus. The last message was from my friend Marshall: "If you don't mind my asking, which home page?" Double argh! I had spread the accursed worm. I wrote a mea culpa warning, which I mailed to everyone in my address book: Don't click on that attachment...