by sumac | Dec 11, 2012 | Apology Essentials, The Mechanics of Apology
A good apology has several parts. Not every apology has all of them, and they might not be in this order. Aaron Lazare, author of On Apology, divides apologies into four parts. These are acknowledgement of the offense; explanation; “various attitudes and behaviors...
by sumac | Dec 7, 2012 | Media Apologies, True Crime Apologies
Early Tuesday morning (12/4), the hospital where Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, was being treated for difficulties in pregnancy received a call, supposedly from Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles. Jacintha Saldanha, a nurse who was covering the switchboard,...
by sumac | Dec 7, 2012 | Institutional Apologies
Outbursts in the courtroom are generally frowned on by judges, and sometimes punished harshly. In Putnam County, West Virginia. Judge William Watkins III was the source of many of the outbursts. Watkins, a family court judge, began presiding in 2002, and was...
by sumac | Dec 5, 2012 | Media Apologies
Maybe it was the perfect quote about the shallowness of city people that brought reporter Karen Jeffrey down. She’d been quoting imaginary people in stories for years, but somehow this particular Veteran’s Day story, with a self-searching vacationer, did...
by sumac | Dec 3, 2012 | Youth apologizes
This is a brilliant note of apology. (The author is a fourth grader, obviously one of wide-ranging intellectual interests.) Dear: joanna Im sorry i ran around the class and did the can can. It’s just that Im exited to go to the Academy of Scince. Love:...