Word: mea
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Remember chess in the old days: two men facing off across a table, hands on buzzers, with no chance of funny business? Now consider the most heavily hyped chess match of 1999: Garry Kasparov vs. The World ? which ended Monday in disappointment, cries of foul play and extraordinary mea culpas from Microsoft, the event's sponsor. The match started in June with the premise of pitting the planet's top player in a four-month match against a global army of Internet users. Kasparov's moves were posted on the Microsoft site zone.com; surfers voted on the countermove based...
...that itinerary sounds a little dull, blame the Russians. Discovery's mission was six months late, thanks to persistent delays with Star City's Soyuz module, which will form the life-support center of the $60 billion station now slated for completion in 2005. NASA bigwigs have already offered mea culpas for giving Russia, which is in the throes of economic and political paralysis, such a vital job -- the completion of which is essential to maintaining the construction schedule. Live and learn. Until the Russians get back on schedule, NASA crews will have to content themselves with busy work -- like...
...screwed up," said Evan Schnittman, who directed the project for Princeton Review. "I've got to say, mea culpa...
...Jones' lawyers have asked for $1 million and that Clinton's have countered with $500,000 -- roughly equal to Paula Jones' legal costs. Mercifully, Jones seems to have dropped her long-standing demand for a Rose Garden apology. Clinton, of course, has already performed more than his share of mea culpas lately...
...Myers' astute political analysis, but having worked for President Clinton distorted her judgment in the piece she wrote for you, "That's Where He Lost Me." However badly the President messed up in his personal life, his responsibility as the Commander in Chief precluded the soul-baring mea culpa Myers unrealistically hoped he would deliver. No President should ever again be humiliated by an official sexual interrogation by a political opponent. Clinton was right to show his anger that Starr's dangerous "probe" is interfering with his marriage and his Executive duties. Myers accepts the premise that the President...