The agreement, signed last Thursday, includes monetary reparations, which were not disclosed.
"It never occurred to me to say we're not going to pay reparations, because I'm not a proponent of monetary reparations," she said.
In order to win, Scott will need ample monetary and grassroots support from the N.R.A.
The official repentance embraced by West Germany's Adenauer government after the second world war, together with monetary reparations to Israel, set an encouraging precedent.
But the real trouble was that, having set up an open-ended academic project, Simmons could not then close it by saying that she opposed monetary reparations.
What's more, the committee, whose members Simmons had picked, seemed unlikely to exceed her instructions: it included three university deans and two professors who declared that they opposed monetary reparations.
"The story they wanted to tell was 'Descendant of slaves wants monetary reparations for slavery.' They made it sound personal and reduced her to a person she's not.
Mississippi, which once set the low bar for terrible prison practices, saw a steep reduction of prison violence and ample monetary savings when it dramatically cut back on long-term solitary several years ago.
Many fear that apologies mean monetary reparations, but that is neither implied nor required.
Monetary reparations would come very late, as only 46 of the estimated 200,000 comfort women are still living and able to benefit from them.
While it involves a promise of $8.3 million of compensation for survivors, monetary reparations are not the crux of the women's demands.
