Word: regretful
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Barkley has always had a cast-iron wit. After throwing a barfly through a plate-glass window in 1997, he was asked whether he had any regrets. Barkley replied, "I regret that we were on the first floor." Now he's verbally tossing NBA players through glass. Unlike other analysts, he refuses to ignore the obvious for the sake of stroking egos. When Atlanta Hawks guard Jacque Vaughn opened the season with an astonishing 23 consecutive missed shots, Barkley brought a Bible to the set and held an impromptu "Pray for Jacque" revival. Informed live that Vaughn...
...couldn't care about them--we had to save ourselves." He pauses. "I just want to go home." The Northern Alliance guards say barefoot Mohammed Haji Meer, 55, was one of the Pakistani commanders. "All these people are Muslims," he says, gesturing at his jailers. "Of course we regret coming here. The Taliban just left us--the people who wanted to fight thought they would be coming back...
...loss of his brother as a close confidant. "I feel really sad now. He was someone I could talk to if I had a serious problem." He is trying to muster the strength to ask his brother's forgiveness. "I'm not going to change my views, but I regret being somewhat malicious with my words...
...from his job at a Toyota dealership when he refused to work on Father's Day. And he tells any new employer to forget it if the hours aren't flexible. The occasional girlfriend comes and goes--and stays gone. "Too time consuming," he shrugs. But what's to regret when you can play hopscotch, stage pillow fights and attend 96 parenting classes in four years? Raising daughter Sarah, 6, is "my greatest job," he says. "I put my life on stop, and I don't regret...
...There’s a lot of things I regret since writing that,” Rose says. “I realize that the message I was trying to get across wasn’t received. People thought that what I was trying to say was that I was unhappy with Harvard, and nothing could be further from the truth...