US defense secretary expresses 'personal regret' over wayward airstrikes
Associated Press Sep 17, 08 12:43 PM CDT
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US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in Afghanistan today, apologized for recent civilian casualties from military operations, the AP reports. While the US strives for precision in airstrikes against Taliban insurgents, “it is clear that we have to work even harder,” Gates said—even as the coalition commander said the reliance on air power was due to an inadequate force on the ground.
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Church's essay series aims to repair evolutionist's reputation
Guardian (UK) Sep 15, 08 12:04 PM CDT
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When Charles Darwin came out with his theory of evolution by natural selection nearly 150 years ago, the Church of England opposed it. But now, 200 years after the celebrated scientist's birth, the church has launched a website exploring its history with Darwin, and the church's head of public affairs has issued a posthumous apology, the Guardian reports.
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He vows to help sex abuse victims, who say cover-ups continue
Reuters Jul 13, 08 2:06 PM CDT
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Traveling to Sydney today, Pope Benedict promised to apologize for a sexual abuse scandal that has rocked Australia's Catholic Church, Reuters reports. He also vowed to ensure it never recurs, and to help Australian victims heal—but one victims' group still accuses the Church of covering up abuse by priests and ensuring they never go to trial.
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Group long barred black docs, kept mum on civil rights
Washington Post Jul 10, 08 8:17 AM CDT
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The American Medical Association is to offer a full apology today for more than a century of racism against African Americans, reports the Washington Post. The country's largest medical association effectively barred black doctors for many years and stayed silent while the country was divided on efforts to end racial discrimination.
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Jackson's son rejects his father's 'divisive' Obama comments
Washington Post Jul 9, 08 6:45 PM CDT
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Jesse Jackson is taking heat for his admittedly "crude and hurtful" comments about Barack Obama, and his own son is leading the charge. "I'm deeply outraged and disappointed," said Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill. Jackson called his father's remarks—in which he said he wanted to cut Obama's "n*** out" for "talking down to black people"—"divisive and demeaning" and said they undercut the elder Jackson's long fight for civil rights, the Washington Post reports.
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Mic caught stray insult; Hannity to air it tonight
CNN Jul 9, 08 4:50 PM CDT
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Jesse Jackson apologized profusely to Barack Obama for a comment to be aired later tonight on Fox, saying that a microphone caught a “crude and hurtful” quip that he meant to make in private. CNN did not reveal what the comment was, but Jackson said he had been criticizing the Dem for moralizing in front of black audiences.
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Everett backtracks after outburst about 'all this whining'
Daily Telegraph (UK) Jun 10, 08 12:30 PM CDT
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Rupert Everett apologized "without reserve" for calling soldiers “wimps” who join the army to torture prisoners, the Telegraph reports. In a recent interview, the actor said, "The whole point of being in the Army is going to war and getting yourself blown up.” He now says his “flippant and irresponsible behavior arises from a deep frustration” with war.
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Footage of fast-food prank gets teens suitable sentence
Florida Today Jun 9, 08 3:35 PM CDT
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A judge has ordered two teens to create and post an apology video on YouTube as punishment for a vicious prank, Florida Today reports. The boys were convicted of battery and criminal mischief after posting video of one of them throwing a soda back at a drive-thru fast-food server after yelling, “Fire in the hole.”
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Back in Michigan, Dem apologizes again, answers her original question
WXYZ.com Jun 3, 08 4:36 PM CDT
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Barack Obama again did penance for calling a Michigan TV reporter “sweetie,” giving an eight-minute interview yesterday to Peggy Agar, three weeks after causing an uproar by using that term of endearment in brushing off a question she asked. At the time, the candidate apologized for his “bad habit” in a voicemail message, WXYZ-TV reports.
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Former president slams VF article as hit piece; wife's campaign apologizes
MSNBC Jun 3, 08 2:30 PM CDT
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The Clinton campaign apologized last night for Bill’s description of a Vanity Fair reporter as “sleazy,” “slimy,” “a dishonest guy” and a “scumbag” in response to a recent story about him in the magazine. "President Clinton was understandably upset about an outrageously unfair article," a Hillary rep said of Todd Purdum's piece, "but the language today was inappropriate and he wishes he had not used it."
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Opinion
She shouldn't 'be elected dog catcher,' one gripes
New York Daily News May 24, 08 3:10 PM CDT
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Hillary’s RFK gaffe certainly has people talking—and most aren’t being too kind. Michael Goodwin of the New York Daily News calls it “an X-ray of a very dark soul” that considers murder just another strategic possibility. Hillary has shot her chance at being vice president, he writes: “She doesn’t deserve to be elected dog catcher anywhere now.”
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OPINION
Invoking opponent's killing 'sounds almost like wishful thinking'
Washington Post May 24, 08 10:25 AM CDT
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Hillary Clinton used history to make a point, but her RFK gaffe provides a valuable lesson for those studying it: “There are taboos in presidential politics, and this is one of the biggest,” Libby Copeland writes in the Washington Post . Clinton has apologized for referring to the assassination in her rationale for staying in the race, but her comments “broke a double taboo,” because many fear Obama’s race makes him a bigger target.
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Hillary defends her prolonged bid by recalling '68 murder
New York Times May 23, 08 7:54 PM CDT
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Hillary Clinton whipped up a storm of anger today by invoking Bobby Kennedy's murder as grounds for staying in the Democratic race, the New York Times reports. Recalling the surprise outcomes of past contests, including her husband’s in 1992, the senator told editors at a South Dakota newspaper that “we all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California" in 1968.
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Calls shooting 'criminal behavior'; soldier sent back to US
CNN May 18, 08 8:10 AM CDT
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A US commander has apologized to Iraqi tribal leaders after an American soldier used a Koran for target practice in Iraq, CNN reports. “The actions of one soldier were nothing more than criminal behavior,” said Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Hammond, head of US troops in Baghdad. "Please forgive me and my soldiers." The soldier, who has been sent back to the US, shot up a copy of the Muslim holy book earlier this month.
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