Word: regretful
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...safety after her release; in Baghdad. Nicola Calipari, an intelligence officer who had negotiated her release, was killed trying to protect her. Pentagon officials said the soldiers had not been told of the release and signaled in vain for the car to stop. Though President Bush expressed regret, a stunned Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said, "We were turned to stone" by the news. "We must have an explanation for such a serious incident, for which someone must take responsibility...
...moving on the wires, he instantly tried to get us all not to write it and he was forced to apologize,” he says. “We all found ourselves in situations where Larry said things that made good quotes that you knew he would later regret...
...think the chances of divisions growing less are much, much smaller than of divisions growing bigger, and I regret that,” he added...
...anticipation of the brewing criticism, Summers began the meeting by once again expressing regret for his remarks last month...
...even as President Bush claimed vindication for his Iraq strategy in the spectacle of millions of Iraqis braving terror and intimidation to go to the polls, the real author of Sunday's election -Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani - confined himself to a simply thanking voters for turning out, and expressing regret that his own Iranian birth prevented him from joining them. It may be easily forgotten in the post-election spin that Sunday's vote was not the Bush administration's idea-quite the contrary. The U.S. had never intended for Iraqis to democratically choose the body that would write their...