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...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?...
Ogletree acknowledged in his apology in April that a “serious mistake?? had been made, but he also used the words “negligent” and “inadvertently” to describe the offenses in question. (Please see story, page...
Absentee advisees can be a byproduct of the tension between the intellectual bigwigs Harvard attracts and the “admissions mistake?? mentality among students...
...from Robert Caro’s excellent biography, “Means of Ascent,” to describe the shameless way Johnson misleadingly portrayed his more conservative opponent as a lackey of big labor. Johnson won the primary after a local political boss “corrected a mistake?? in the ballots for one precinct...
...there remains a need for a door check despite having a magnetization system, a student librarian said, “in case a book, CD, video, or piece of equipment has been missed for some reason or other in the magnetization process, the guard is there to discover the mistake??—when they can. Even the director of communications for the libraries Beth Brainard admitted that, “this isn’t the ultimate security check.” In rare cases, the guards triumphantly recover an overdue book from the hands...