The Redditors have since apologized, with what sounds like contrition.
"He apologized with ill-concealed sincerity for speaking from the Tory platform," Mr. Galbraith related.
While Davenport quickly apologized with a written note, Hingis was far from contrite, blistering Mauresmo for the public affection she showed her partner, Sylvie Bourdon.
It has been a week since John Kerry apologized, with a certain recalcitrance, for having suggested, in an address to a closed-door meeting of the Trilateral Commission, that Israel was at risk of becoming "an apartheid state".
Not that Leven was necessarily to blame, but he also designed a 1954 stinker called "The Silver Chalice," in which Paul Newman made his screen début, for which Newman later apologized with an advertisement in the Los Angeles Times.
Since the trustbusters issued the fines, chastened top executives have apologized, with several saying they unwittingly inherited cartel membership from smaller companies they acquired or that their managers acted without company knowledge.
