The reports were the most detailed acknowledgment so far by the government that it has clamped down on the Tibetan regions.
Wednesday's remarks amounted to acknowledgment that so far, the news has been almost uniformly bad.
But this acknowledgment only went so far: while the likeness of Colonel Shaw, who was white, was based on photographs of him, the depictions of the black soldiers were based not on them but on the faces of models hired by Mr. Saint-Gaudens.
In his acknowledgments, Rather even goes so far as to identify the essays he didn't write and to name the CBS staff writers who did.
The Obama administration said the report demonstrated that Iran "continues its effort to expand its nuclear program and move closer to a nuclear weapons capability," an acknowledgment that, at least so far, the sanctions have not forced Iran to change its direction.
By requiring its football players to sign "acknowledgment of risk" forms, which it is so far refusing to make public, Northwestern appears to be trying to deny any responsibility for the harms football has caused its players.
It is also an acknowledgment that not enough was done for this child so far, that some things went wrong or expectations need to be adjusted.
And so far the Armenians have received remarkably little acknowledgment of their suffering.
So far not too optimistic, I know, but an acknowledgment of the extraordinary condition you find yourself.
Yet so far the president has failed to voice any acknowledgment of the cultural, racial and historical impact of Michael Jackson's work.
