He really does deliver a mea culpa onscreen - though I could not tempt him into a Hartlepool chippy for some mushy peas, so Labour-era urban myth remain unexplored.
Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch issued a rare public mea culpa, canceled a controversial deal to take full control of British Sky Broadcasting and accepted the resignations of several top lieutenants (one, News International chief Rebekah Brooks, was subsequently arrested and questioned).
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What the markets need to see is a mea culpa for hugely imbalanced economic development.
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But not when the hacker leaves behind a mea culpa message on YouTube.
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Yes, there was a mea culpa for missing the contraction of business conditions but I sensed he had to cover his back.
One counter-intuitive tactic I suggest to thaw minds frozen in opposition to your position is offering-up a mea culpa while pressing your case as you do so.
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"There is no 'quit' in me or anyone else on the Pimco premises, " Mr. Gross said in a letter in October to his clients in which he made a mea culpa to shareholders of his fund.
Initial testing at the PC4 began recently when researchers used a solvent called monoethanolamine (MEA) to capture CO2 from a slipstream of flue gas from the plant.
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Despite a timely mea culpa from the 50-year-old Basic Instinct star, the company ultimately pulled its Chinese ads.
And he delivers a 'mea culpa' - for what he now sees were inadequacies in Labour's industrial policies.
Instead, he advocated that the Bush Administration sign a document by President Morales, which was essentially a 'mea culpa.
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Financially, a public mea culpa could simply add to his monetary woes.
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Armstrong paused to compose himself before a final mea culpa.
Earlier stops on the mea culpa tour included a segment on The Oprah Winfrey Show and a Super Bowl ad featuring Winfrey, Leno and long-time rival David Letterman.
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.
One of the industries brightest and most prominent researchers, Mikko Hypponen of F-Secure, offered a public mea culpa last week for the failure of Anti-Virus vendors to detect and prevent advanced malware such as the recently discovered Flame.
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Not to worry: Once Ambrose stops sulking and comes up with a credible mea culpa, he too will be restored to good standing within the punditocracy, and once again will see his words appear frequently in national magazines--within quotation marks and attributed to him in the text.
But Gibson launched into full crisis mode, issuing a series of mea culpas and entering rehab.
My Dec. 31, 1984 column, "Big Bloopers of 1984, " was a sort of mea culpa, along with lessons learned.
After a recent company mea culpa in which he disclosed that Motorola might actually lose money in the first quarter of 2007, Zander seems to have continued along his path of blaming everyone else for his problems and giving several the boot.
But given the Justice Department's desire to criminalize complicity in money laundering--whether deliberate or otherwise--Merrill's mea culpa may be only the start of a long penance.
Alex Gibney, meanwhile, received the best documentary award for Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, a hard-hitting exploration of sexual abuse within the Catholic church.
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So a few weeks ago, he put out this despairing mea culpa on local TV.
"Folks that have done the mea culpa, have stepped up early and said 'I made a mistake', they are not judged as harshly, " says Robert Watson, professor of American studies and author of Affairs of State: The Untold History of Presidential Love, Sex and Scandal.
Below is a three month price history chart comparing the stock performance of RS, versus MEA and GNI.
But its mea culpa didn't go far enough for critics of the debacle, who want a review of the Bank of England's role.
President Clinton may cling to a separation of church and state that allows him to share his latest Monica mea culpa with an audience of forgiving preachers, only to free himself to dwell on his secular achievements when he addresses the party convention on Monday night.
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Part mea culpa, part rallying cry, Ford is trying to gin up empathy among customers and investors through a series of four-minute films it is producing and putting up on the Web.
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