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...Truth or Dare, a stylized icon of the Madonna appears dreamlike over her head and then dissolves into the form of the black-clad chanteuse spinning beneath the cross in an act of contrition: Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa...
...seems like January was open season on Harvard course-offerings, both past and present. In a piece titled. "Mea Culpa" in The New Republic's special issue dealing with race on campus, Richard Blow, a doctoral candidate in the History of American civilization at Harvard, joins the whining chorus of dissent against Harvard's allegedly illegitimate "PC" course offerings. Here, he lets loose on a course offered by Shakespeare-guru Marjorie Garber...
Shevardnadze went public with his intentions in a remarkable mea culpa speech to the Supreme Soviet in October 1989. Reversing a policy of decades of Soviet intervention in Eastern Europe, he vowed that every country in the Warsaw Pact now had "absolute freedom of choice" in politics and government. Not only that, he continued, but by invading Afghanistan "we had set ourselves against all humanity, ignored universal human values." Finally, he said, Moscow planned "to curtail all our military bases as well as our military presence abroad by the year...
...recent mea culpa notwithstanding, it seems incredible that Lee did not know of the military's discriminatory policy. After all, he presided over debate before the council during which several students testified that ROTC expressly excludes gays. Lee insists he didn't notice. Either he's lying, or he was oblivious to the proceedings of the meeting...
...Mea culpa. Mea culpa...