Word: regretful
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...really don’t feel a lot of regret about the point system going,” Orfield said, adding that individualized race-conscious policies are “the fairest system...
...toward the establishment of a Palestinian state, Sharon's actions are a challenge. After the attempt to kill Rantisi, which left two dead in Gaza, Bush went further than ever before in criticizing Sharon's actions. "I am troubled by the recent Israeli helicopter gunship attacks," said Bush. "I regret the loss of innocent life. I also don't believe that the attacks help Israeli security...
...service of opium and imperialism. Perhaps to expiate all that shame, he bypassed university and became a policeman in Burma. One day he was summoned to deal with an elephant that had reportedly killed its mahout. "Shooting an Elephant," his essay on that melancholy event, aches with regret at the taking of a life, albeit an animal's. He resigned to become, as he informed a childhood sweetheart, "Eric the famous writer." His first book, Down and Out in Paris and London, was a nonfiction account of several months in the late 1920s spent among hoboes and whores, picking hops...
...Blair doesn't have that luxury. Only 42% of British voters approve of his job performance. As always, Blair will reserve any criticisms he may have of Washington for the secure telephone line to the Oval Office. But not even British understatement could keep his aides from venting their regret that Rumsfeld had ever opened his mouth--and from praying that those WMD finally turn up. --By J.F.O. McAllister/London
...tinge of regret, a single flicker of remorse, could get her millions of fans once again wanting to walk in her garden clogs, buying a sympathy gallon of aubergine paint, or gluing themselves to the TV to watch her make cocoa from imported beans, in much the way Hillary got the blue-haired and blue-collar ladies of upstate New York to vote...