Adriaan Vlok, the late South African apartheid-era police minister.
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Even incomplete or insincere apologies have restorative value.
Cuomo deflected responsibility during his public apology.
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Cuomo used language that people forced to apologize often deploy to avoid taking responsibility and show genuine contrition. An expert on public apologies suggests three don'ts and a do.
Apologies are hard.
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The Canadian prime minister is the latest public figure struggling to apologize for past misbehavior. A language scholar explains how to do it right.
Time to apologise – but what for?
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As a new app aims to stop us apologising so much, why saying sorry is a glue that binds us all together.