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Faced with the wrath of an embittered Faculty, Summers spent a harried spring semester offering every conceivable variation of mea culpa: not apologizing (“I was trying to provoke discussion”), not really apologizing (“I’m sorry for any misunderstanding”), apologizing (“I made a big mistake”), and apologizing again (“I was wrong?...
...extensively with critics of globalization and with disputants of his claims of equality, Friedman recognizes this question. He asserts that “the world is not flat” and explains the title as literary license intended to draw attention to the issue—but this mea culpa does not arrive until page 375. The concession’s offhand placement in the denouement of the argument, rather than in the prelude to it, can only confuse the reader compelled by Friedman’s effervescent faith in flatness for the previous...
...original Xbox. Kevin Rollins, the new CEO of Dell--the world's biggest manufacturer of Intel PCs--mused publicly about the possibility of switching to AMD chips. (Rollins has since decided to stick with Intel.) Craig Barrett, the current Intel CEO, who will step down in May, went into mea culpa mode. "This is not the Intel we know," he wrote in an e-mail to employees. At an industry conference last year, he literally got down on his knees and begged forgiveness. "We don't sugarcoat our issues," says Barrett. "If you operate at the leading edge...
...retro-Rudenstine agenda—a hands-off, status quo administration raising money with one hand and throwing it at professors with the other—is actually best served by an impotent Larry Summers. After all, a new president wouldn’t labor against the endless mea culpas and nonstop pandering that the faculty’s warriors want Larry to learn...
...mea culpa followed four days of intense media scrutiny and a barrage of criticism from academics who objected to Summers’ comments at an economics symposium one week...