Or is it an excessive mea culpa, particularly in light of the dire economic circumstances of the state?

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For a while, Jonah Lehrer, the science writer who admitted to fabricating quotes, plagiarism, and other journalism sins, seemed to be pulling it off in his mea culpa speech to a Knight Foundation conference.

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As for Gore's mea culpa, it didn't go nearly far enough.

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Ms Andrea Kneen, spokesperson for MEA, said it was estimated that Eairystane, Glen Helen and Jurby Church would have power restored by the morning, while Barregarrow, Sartfield and Fleshwick could take longer.

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If it was wrong then we'll do our mea culpas at that point.

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Before the holidays, there had been an ESPN mea culpa-ish in which the company president said that the network probably should have toned it down on meaningless nonsense like the Tebow watch, and these comments were interpreted as a kind of urgent call for sports sanity.

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