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...members of Chu-Ki-Nren, a group of repentant Japanese war criminals whose name means "Those Who Returned from China," are guilty of many things: some raped and killed in Nanking; others did Nazi-style medical "research" on captured Chinese. After years of expressing regret quietly in Japan, Chu-Ki-Nren members are seeking to apologize to American audiences, but Washington's ban on visas for war criminals is preventing them. Convinced, however, that the group's regrets should be heard, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean at the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, has organized...
...gave Mike McCurry. So it was perhaps a gesture of gratitude that when it came time to announce McCurry's not-so-surpising resignation as press secretary, President Clinton poked his head into McCurry's daily briefing Thursday and did the disseminating himself for a change. "Much to my regret . . . the long-awaited coup in the press office is finally taking place," Clinton said, and it's no surprise that the President's smile seemed a little rueful...
McNeeley said he has one regret about the newMurr Center. In his old office on JFK Street, theHarvard Square restaurants were merely a hop and askip away. Now he must get a little exercise andwalk across the river...
...scratching her chin and dreaming of a place to hang her ragged clothes--her real strength is in her close-to-the-bone rendering of the sadness lurking at the edges of every adult life. She understands how the most contented of us can still be overwhelmed unexpectedly by regret for the life not led. She's had torrid affairs but lacks "one single friend from all that ardour." She wishes she had been able to satisfy the longing "that exists in the head and the heart as well as the body," rather than finding herself utterly alone...
...Mexicans are complaining that their sovereignty is being violated," says Stogel. "They want the agents involved in the sting arrested and extradited." Stogel reports that Clinton yesterday may have expressed some regret over the handling of the operation, but also stressed that there would be no prosecution of DEA agents. Despite yesterday's talks, a Washington meeting later this week between Mexican legislators and their U.S. counterparts will likely see sparks flying...