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...Culpa Dept: In Saturday's review of Black Comedy, I incorrectly suggested that its author, Peter Shaffer, could also claim title to Slouth, I was wrong. Slouth was written by Anthony Shaffer, Peter's twin brother I am told. But then you know those Britishers, they all do sound alike...
...indictment, but in a story that was buried deep in a bulging Sunday edition. The Washington Star, which was not even among those accused by Epstein, ran an editorial that noted its own care not to use Garry's figure without attribution, complimented the Post for its mea culpa, but nonetheless shouldered part of the blame directed at the press in general...
Continuing what Boston After Dark called his "mea culpa" stance, Schottland pledged full cooperation with police officials including access to all records- aademic, medical, psychiatric, biographical- and open entry to any campus building. If there is any reluctance, "I will personally see that it is done," he added...
These vignettes have appeared on Los Angeles television as part of a zany mea culpa advertising campaign for General Telephone of California. By tacitly conceding the company's mistakes, the admen hope that the campaign will win sympathy and understanding among the system's many disgruntled users. The firm, largest of General Telephone & Electronics' more than 30 telephone subsidiaries, has 1,400,000 customers in Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley and other areas of Southern California. It is the company that residents love to hate. Public phones are often out of order, private phone bells ring...
...demanded to be heard right then and there. After 20 minutes of shouting, the meeting was adjourned and nobody was heard. That evening the protesters were installed in a place of honor on the stage of the Brooklyn Museum. They were not appeased. They listened to a stirring mea culpa by John Hightower, director of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, on the failure of all museums to combat war, racism and repression. No shouts. Instead, they walked out in a body on the grounds that Hightower had not kept his promise to establish a black-studies center...