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Republican leaders are trying everything from mea culpas to community breakfasts. For the job of state political director, the party has hired a 26-year-old Mexican-American operative named Mike Madrid, who wrote his college thesis on how the G.O.P. could win Latino votes. Senatorial candidates Issa and Fong are both running Spanish-language ads. And over the course of the year, the party will hold nine "Hispanic summits" in different parts of the state...
...exactly a line to stop traffic. Didn't the media's free ride end years ago? Haven't we all grown used to the cycle in which every big news story, from Princess Diana to Bill and Monica, is followed by the inevitable how-the-media-screwed-up mea culpas...
...Clinton may have spent most of the week uttering mea culpas up and down Africa, but Mandela was anything but apologetic: ?We should not abandon those who helped us in the darkest hour of the history of this country,? he said, referring to alliances criticized by Washington. If the U.S. aspired to world leadership, it should set an example by making peace with its enemies, Mandela added. The tone of today?s events -- which included a visit to Robben Island, the prison where Mandela served much of his 27-year sentence -- was mostly positive, with the two leaders showering praise...
...MEA CULPA...
...Steven Biko's killers admitted their crime, and Pentagon Top Brass said Army sex scandals were a product of poor leadership. Even the doctor who once championed the disgraced weight-loss drug Redux ? and made a nice little profit in doing so ? came out and said his mea culpas...