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...Politics as Usual I read the article "Smoldering Hatreds" [April 18] with regret. It gives the unfortunate impression that the Republic of Korea is taking political advantage of the recent diplomatic friction with Japan. The latest incident involves fundamental problems caused by Japan's territorial claim to South Korea's Tokdo islets and its justification of its history of aggression, both of which raise ethical questions. Linking the South Korean government's stance to a domestic by-election misleads your readers about the issues. Seoul has no intention whatsoever of using the territorial and textbook issues politically. Rather, I would...
However, Hopkins does regret that he will no longer be able to participate in a sport he picked up a couple years...
After pausing for a second he adds, “I don’t regret for a second that I didn’t do that...
ABRAMOFF I regret that in the heat of the locker-room atmosphere of the lobbying world, I sometimes--rarely, but sometimes--resorted to language more common to a drill sergeant or a football coach. These regrettable utterances were not directed at my clients. They were usually reserved for those attacking my clients. Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context. As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have a solid record of years...
...last time. We would, I think, be paralyzed by the knowledge that we are hanging out with a given group of people for the last time, that we are attending our last sweaty room party, that we have heard our last painfully moronic section discussion. Nostalgia and regret make a deadly cocktail. Over beers Friday night, a roommate and I lamented how quickly time seemed to be slipping away from us, lamented the time lost sleeping when each of our remaining hours seems precious. And then—for what will, with any luck, not be the last time?...