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Article: IF HISTORY DOESN'T GET YOU, GRAMMAR WILL.(NEWS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- December 30, 1997
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Byline: Ellen Goodman
BOSTON -- What a perfect way to end 1997: the year when apologizing meant never having to say you're sorry.
All across the world, we watched leaders perform acts of contrition for things that happened long before their time. In London, Prime Minister Tony Blair, circa 1997, apologized for the Irish potato famine, circa 1845. In Washington, some members of the 105th Congress urged an apology for slavery that ended during the 38th Congress.
Meanwhile those folks who were actually, personally guilty continued the current tradition of the Un-apologetic apology. The 1997 Classic was Marv Albert, who threw himself on the mercy of ...