Thursday, January 18, 2007

Apologies in the News, January 18, 2007

Duke Professors Reject Calls to Apologize to Lacrosse PlayersDiverse - Fairfax,VA,USAMany have called for the Group of 88 to retract its advertisement and apologize. Such critics aren’t likely to be comforted by the group’s “clarification. ...

Will the govt step inRediff - IndiaThe minister told newsmen that two news channels Sahara and IBN 7 had tendered apologies for showing an offensive clip of Mahatma Gandhi. ...

CLUB ISSUES APOLOGYDoncaster Today - Doncaster,England,UKDONCASTER Rovers last week issued an apology to those supporters caught up in ticket office queues prior to the Darlington match. ...

The pragmatics of political apologies -- Harris et al. 17 (6): 715 ...Despite the wealth of literature generated over the past two decades on the apology as a speech act, the political apology has been relatively neglected as ...

Next She Needs to Apologize For Her HairBy Jessica Pop star Pink apologizes for Australian wool slur.

With Apologies to Sen. Joseph McCarthy.By ezdidit First, the text of an apology that does more damage than it retracts. Here, then, from today's Washington Post, a link (for as long as it lasts), to 'An Apology to Detainees' Attorneys' Wednesday, January 17, 2007; Page A18 ...