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...Kalb, the former reporter, said that even McNamara himself likely did not believe that his post-war actions could serve sufficient penitence for his mistakes...
...didn't apologize [for his Vietnam mistakes], but he did certainly say a number of times in personal conversations and in public that he made mistakes, and he wanted others to avoid those mistakes," Nye said. On a post to his blog on the Huffington Post, Nye wrote that "the lives of leaders are more complicated than I thought when I was an assistant professor," and that while part of him will never forgive McNamara for the consequences of his mistakes in Vietnam, McNamara has also earned his respect by trying "to come to terms with his actions...
...dead unfurled a memorial in Moscow on the second anniversary of the disaster, not a single senior government official attended. This is not surprising. The Kursk went down when one of its torpedoes blew up. Remembering this sort of self-inflicted tragedy would conflict with Soviet - and post-Soviet - myth-making about the power and glory of the Russian military. (See pictures from the mission to recover victims from the Kursk...
...Murdoch, whose News Corp. also owns the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal and Fox Broadcasting, denies that he had any knowledge of the payments. "If that happened, I would know about it," he told Bloomberg News on July 8. (See pictures of Murdoch...
...Facebook has maintained the pretense, as was noted in a Techcrunch blog post on the new privacy policies, that they want users to publicize more information in order to help differentiate between people with similar names, thereby making it easier to connect with friends...