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...that the plea agreement he reached with the government to end his nine-month incarceration is off; rather, FBI director Louis Freeh is set to detail his agency's case against Lee before the Senate Tuesday - the same day as the New York times published a nuanced mea culpa for the instances in which its coverage of the story "fell short of our standards." In an effort supposedly to justify the government's incarceration of the fired Los Alamos nuclear scientist - questioned even by President Clinton following Lee's release - Freeh reportedly plans to allege that Lee met a suspected...
...President Clinton may cling to a separation of church and state that allows him to share his latest Monica mea culpa with an audience of forgiving preachers, only to free himself to dwell on his secular achievements when he addresses the party convention on Monday night. But that wouldn't be the first instance in which the President has found himself out of step with the Gore campaign...
...raised in defiance of new civil rights laws. And Powell's son Michael married a white woman--a practice well outside Bob Jones' newly abandoned edict against interracial dating. Recently it has been Bush's former rival that Powell has warm feelings for, praising JOHN MCCAIN for his mea culpa over the South Carolina flag issue...
...action by a remarkable pontiff, urging the faithful and the clergy to honestly face up to those moments in its history when, he believes, the church was not true to its own teachings. The Holocaust may be the most commonly discussed of these moments, but the church's collective mea culpa is expected to cover everything from the Crusades and the Inquisition to its attitude toward Christians of other denominations. Not that each of these sins and infractions will receive detailed treatment: "Given the number of sins committed in the course of 20 centuries, [reference to them] must necessarily...
...fact, Sunday's mass may be less a cataloging of specific wrongs than a general framing of the context and meaning of the Catholic Church's acknowledgment of its own sins at the dawn of the third millennium. "Above and beyond giving a mea culpa, John Paul II will attempt to frame what the church means by a mea culpa," says TIME religion correspondent David Van Biema. "His belief that the church strengthens itself through a frank acknowledgment of past sins is a remarkable thing. But the Vatican is also being careful to make clear that this isn't simply...