Word: regretfulness
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...movie star began by saying he was not in Las Vegas to promote Angels and Demons, the Sony film in which he stars and that is slated for a spring release. No. "I'm here simply because of Betamax regret," he said, referring to the losing video format that Sony infamously backed in the 1970s. "I went VHS - what a fool I was! What a different world this would have been if I had been one of the 600 people who bought Betamax!" (See TIME's Best Inventions...
...largest branch of Orthodox Christianity after a millennium of prickly (at best) relations following the Great Schism of 1054. Most recently, Alexy had accused Catholics of aggressive proselytizing throughout the former Soviet Union after the fall of Communism. It was said that Pope John Paul II's great regret was not being able to visit Moscow...
...advice, most of which can be found in any number of airport newsstand business tomes. It's what's not there. To release such a thing at the height of our current financial crisis - well, D'Agostino must either be smacking himself in the face with regret or clinching his fists and yelling "Yes!" (given that he advises several times to take advantage of unforeseen opportunities, it's probably the latter). Full of real-estate developers, venture capitalists and tech mavens, Rich Like Them fills the reader first with a sense of schadenfreude. After that passes, a sad-ish feeling...
...Amis published the book On Drink, which included several self-researched hangover cures such as beef paste and vodka, baking soda and vodka and several other mixtures involving vodka. Amis also mused on what he called the "metaphysical hangover," in which physical ailments are replaced with nagging feelings of regret and self-loathing. Unfortunately the only cure for the metaphysical hangover is a lot of self-pity and maybe an album by the Cure...
...projectiles. Al-Zaidi has penned a letter of apology to the Prime Minister, asking for a pardon and saying his actions were directed squarely against Bush and not at al-Maliki, according to Omar Almashhadani, a spokesman for the Sunni Tawafuk parliamentary bloc. "It is too late now to regret the big and ugly act that I perpetrated," al-Zaidi wrote in the letter, according to the Associated Press. "That's going to help him in court," Almashhadani said, "but if he's tried and sentenced to a few years, it will leave al-Maliki with a bad reputation...