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...toward minority groups, other Christian denominations and alienated members of their own church. But the ur-apology will come Sunday, when Pope John Paul II delivers a mass at St. Peter's Basilica asking forgiveness for 2,000 years of sins committed in the name of the church - a mea culpa that already has its detractors both inside and outside the church...
...LAPD is hoping the 362-page mea culpa it delivered Wednesday will keep the federal government at bay. The perpetually rehabilitating police force is feeling the heat as details emerge about its worst-ever scandal, which includes horrifying reports of police corruption and violence in an anti-gang unit. But the eerie familiarity of the report assembled by the LAPD Board of Inquiry and posted on the department's web site (www.lapdonline.org) has many in the city hoping that federal intervention is still...
...mea culpa points to two trends. One is a lapse in judgment by some of the journal's editors; the other is medicine's increased reliance on drug-company funding for research. "The New England Journal of Medicine is still the gold standard in credibility," says TIME health writer Janice Horowitz. "However, medical studies in general are not what they used to be. You see more and more conflicts of interest. You often see drug companies financing studies...
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...