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Mahar Receives Apology from U.S. Democrats

I wrote a series of posts about public apologies awhile back. Yesterday I saw a riff on apologies in the NY Times and wondered whether to bring it to your attention.

Today there is an apology from the U.S. House of Representatives to Mahar Arar. This is an apology that is owed by the U.S. government and the Bush administration. We may have to treasure this one a long time before we hear one from the government.

Since the Universe is aligning around apology, here we go.

From the report in the Toronto Star:

>After his release, Arar returned to Canada and Ottawa has since apologized to him for its role in the affair and agreed to pay him almost $10 million in compensation.

>The Bush administration has not apologized.

>"Let me personally give you what our government has not: an apology," said Bill Delahunt, D-Mass., as he opened the hearing.

>"Let me apologize to you and the Canadian people for our government's role in a mistake."

NY Times column, Regrets Only, created from published apologies.

My series on Apology:

Ths Simple Approach to Apology Works
Apology, the Unknown Universe
Apology 3

Full post as published by Building Rapport on October 18, 2007 (boomark / email).