Word: culpae
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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...
...actual no-holds-barred miss (such as the complete omission of the San Diego Crew Classic last week, nostra culpa) is usually just that--a miss. An error. Something that, up against deadline, we overlooked. A failure to communicate between a reporter and an editor. A whole team that's out at a party and can't be reached. If I'm sick with the flu and Tarek has three big papers due, quality control will slip a little...
...culpa, oh theater gods. Forgive this cynical Sondheim fanatic her doubts. the Kirkland House production of Little Shop of Horrors is a tremendously entertaining romp with some of the best choreography this side of The Supremes...
...obvious that if Clinton truly thought it unethical for him to remain home after four of his friends died in Vietnam, he could have exposed himself to the same risk at any moment simply by enlisting in the military. Even now, a last "last word" and a forthright mea culpa would help immeasurably. In seeking to understand his candidate's self- defeating silence, a senior Clinton aide turned again to Hart and recalled the miniautobiography Hart had written shortly before the 1988 campaign. In the last paragraph of that otherwise forgettable book, Hart said, "The immortal Yeats wrote...