Word: recantation
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...Yukos, in jail since last October on tax evasion and fraud charges, wrote an essay for a Moscow newspaper, apologizing for becoming rich instead of safeguarding liberal values, and praising President Vladimir Putin as "more liberal and democratic than 70% of our population." Yukos stock jumped on hopes the recant - reminiscent of Stalin-era confessions - might be part of a deal to free Khodorkovsky. Fat chance. Although authorities indicated they would allow Yukos to keep disputed Siberian licenses, the Prosecutor General posted charges against Khodorkovsky's associate Platon Lebedev on its website. "Khodorkovsky is deluding himself if he thinks...
...model allows victims to confront those who abused the authority of the state at the highest level and punish them. It also allows for those complicit in a regime’s everyday functioning—in this case, a large portion of the Sunni minority—to recant their involvement with the regime and rejoin civil society. Such is the system that has allowed the multitude of ethnicities in South Africa—from Boers, the group that provided apartheid’s rigid backbone, to those whom they routinely victimized—to function again...
...Tony suspected that someone was likely to be a Judas, what would he do? He'd have him over to the house for some baked ziti, treat him like a prince, get him tickets to a ballgame. The rat might then feel guilty and recant - or not, as the case may be, but at least Tony would have given him a chance to reconsider before getting out the baseball...
That, however, is not the worst of it. The message the leadership in Beijing - and most China policy watchers - are likely to take from Wednesday's scramble to recant an instruction issued on behalf of Rumsfeld suspending all military-to-military ties with China is that the Bush administration hasn't yet resolved its China policy, and speaks with a diversity of voices. And they'd be right, of course: The administration hasn't yet filled all the staff positions dealing with China policy, and there are clearly differences of emphasis on how Washington should manage the tone and content...
...leading law enforcement agency, in the eye of a political firestorm over China's apparent access to blueprints of some U.S. nuclear warhead designs, appearing to rush a man into court for allegedly helping a foreign power steal the "crown jewels" of the nation's nuclear secrets, only to recant nine months later and concede that the accused was guilty only of something even a former CIA director has admitted doing - mishandling classified misinformation. So while the feds may have finished with Wen Ho Lee, it's unlikely that Lee is finished with the feds...