by sumac | Aug 15, 2017 | Institutional Apologies
On the streets of Tower Hamlets, a London borough, a five-year-old set up a lemonade stand. She charged 50 pence for a small glass, and a pound for a large one. That’s about 65 cents or a dollar-thirty. Her father, a professor at Cass Business School, proudly...
by sumac | Aug 6, 2017 | Academic apologies
A university sent letters of admissions to more kids than it actually wanted to admit, calculating that a lot of them wouldn’t come. This happens all the time. If a school gets too many students, it may scramble to shoehorn in the extras. Dorm rooms that were...
by sumac | Aug 3, 2017 | Personal Apologies
It’s almost time. That time when a strangely-assorted group of people travel in their thousands to a flat dry dustpan to camp, build artworks, ignite spectacular flames, dance, give things to each other, and burn artworks down. And things too fierce to mention....
by sumac | Jul 27, 2017 | Personal Apologies
Sometimes an apology fails rational criteria and yet manages to do the job. SorryWatch was reading Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen’s excellent autobiography, and came across such a case. As described in the book, Springsteen’s father was a hard man to grow...
by sumac | Jul 14, 2017 | Bropology, Corporate Apologies
Parkour, closely related to free running, is cool. Fun to do and to watch. You’re dashing through the built world like an obstacle course, bouncing off stuff, leaping from building to building as if pursued by killers, hurtling walls, maybe tossing in...
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