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...President even added a little Bushism to his mea culpa, one more for the road. "We were trying to say something differently, but nevertheless it conveyed a different message," Bush said--counting, as always, on his inflection, brow-wrinkling and calisthenic widening and narrowing of the eyes to get across his meaning. Maybe they should engrave that one over the doors of the future Bush Library. Love him or hate him, Bush has undeniably been a President who tried doing things differently, but nevertheless got different results. He is the free-market apostle who wound up ordering massive government intervention...
...learn in the opening scene that the killer is six-year-old Michael—but 99.99% of you already had the twist spoiled for you, so take a couple of shots in mourning. For the three people whom I just ruined it for, drink the same. Mea culpa. 2. Every time Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) speaks. His Frankenstein-esque lines like “The evil is gone!” and “I realized what was living behind that boy’s eyes was purely and simply—evil” are so ridiculously...
...many observers, the underlying accusations in Troopergate are not all that damning. Many Alaskans have sympathy for the anxiety and frustration the Palins felt over Wooten's continued employment. In Anchorage, I've heard time and again that Palin could have avoided further scrutiny with a single convivial mea culpa at the outset, apologizing in particular for her initial inaccurate denial that anyone in her administration, including herself, had contacted Monegan about Wooten. Stapleton says the firing was a personnel matter that the state attorney general advised Palin not to comment on initially. But still, Alaskans say that if Palin...
...though he undoubtedly meant what he said, Wen's mea culpa must carry less weight than it would have a few years ago - on previous occasions he has been obliged to ask the people's pardon for everything from the deaths of coal miners and polluted drinking water to train passengers stranded by the authorities' inadequate response to a severe snowstorm. Faced with an ever expanding crisis over poisoned milk products and a string of other recent accidents that left hundreds dead - all directly attributable to administrative negligence or corruption - ordinary Chinese might be excused for asking themselves whether...
...Jingjing (who won a gold on August 10) and Tian Liang were publicly chastised for devoting time to commercial activities without prior approval from sports bureaucrats. Tian did not apologize for his alleged infraction. He was summarily expelled from the national team. Guo, however, made a tearful public mea culpa, saying, "I belong to the country...