by sumac | May 17, 2014 | Institutional Apologies, Religious Apologies
Jessica Urbina, a senior at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory school (SHC) in San Francisco, got a great picture for the yearbook. In the portrait, taken on the school’s Picture Day, Urbina’s beaming in a natty tuxedo, a look that also worked for her at...
by sumac | May 15, 2014 | Institutional Apologies
In Oakland, California, postal officials looked at the area around the main office and found it flawed. There was a parking lot for mail trucks, and a street with wide sidewalks adorned with flourishing ficus trees, and there was bird shit all over everything. I mean....
by sumac | Apr 21, 2014 | Academic apologies, Institutional Apologies, Youth apologizes
Zeman Elementary School in Lincoln, Nebraska, sent a flyer to parents of fifth graders with 9 rules for their kids. The rules are supposed to help kids stop being bullied, by turning bullies into friends. Wow! How empowering is that!?! Except that the rules are...
by snarly | Mar 18, 2014 | Apology Essentials, Institutional Apologies, Personal Apologies, Scientific apologies
Our pal Ivan Oransky at Retraction Watch, who’s also the VP of MedPage Today, alerted us to a terrific MedPage Today video about how and why doctors should apologize. It’s not embeddable, but you can watch it here. You should probably apologize if...
by sumac | Oct 8, 2013 | Institutional Apologies, Media Apologies, True Crime Apologies
On December 17th, 2010, Joanna Yeates disappeared. She was a 25-year-old landscape architect in Bristol, UK. Her absence was discovered on the 19th, when her boyfriend returned from a weekend away and noticed that the car hadn’t been moved and the cat...
by sumac | Sep 19, 2013 | Institutional Apologies, Media Apologies
Evening, the leafy gardens of Buckingham Place. Two police officers patrolling the grounds spot a male suspect they do not recognize. They act promptly. What happened next? Either they held the suspect at gunpoint and demanded he lie flat on the ground, as reported in...
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