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A Good Apology Doesn’t Change the Subject

October 31, 2017 – 2:48 pm

We learn another element of a good apology from Kevin Spacey this week: don’t change the subject. Mr. Spacey, a Hollywood actor, was accused this week by another actor, Anthony Rapp, of assaulting him when Rapp was 14. To his credit, Spacey issued an immediate response. He tweeted that he was “beyond horrified” to hear […]

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Celebrity Chef John Besh Apologizes

October 24, 2017 – 9:42 pm

Celebrity Chef John Besh stepped down this week from the restaurant group he founded, amid a host of sexual harassment complaints naming him and other top men in his company, which employs more than one thousand people in New Orleans, San Antonio and Baltimore. Besh issued a statement in which he acknowledged an extra-marital affair […]

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An “Apology” Law that Actually Uses the Word “Apology”

October 9, 2017 – 3:45 pm

We learn from a posting at mediate.com that Hong Kong has passed its version of what many jurisdictions refer to as an “apology law.” The idea is to encourage apologies between litigants by making apologies inadmissible should the case go to trial. The article contrasts the more straightforward Hong Kong legislation, which actually defines “apology,” […]

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Michigan State Police Chief Apologizes for Facebook Meme

September 28, 2017 – 3:46 pm

The head of the Michigan State Police, Kriste Kibbe Etue, posted a meme on Facebook over the weekend, criticizing NFL players who protested at the start of football games. She called them “degenerates” and accused them of hating America “and disrespect[ing] our armed forces.” According to media reports, the meme was widely shared, although she […]

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Employees Terminated: Could there have been a better outcome?

September 8, 2017 – 3:08 pm

Two lively young women work as aides in a nursing home. One evening, as they are preparing a resident for bed, they start goofing around, and one of them takes a video of the other, with the bewildered resident in the background. Then, as young people so often do, they post the video on Instagram. […]

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