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He coupled his mea culpa with a call for an independent investigation into the errors made by the intelligence agencies.

The line "My fault, his fault, a kingship through a fault" seamlessly blends surrender (the Confiteor — "mea culpa") with its opposite: defiance (Richard III — "kingdom for a horse").

But this is a confessional society, as Ellen DeGeneres demonstrated with a meltdown on her talk show on Monday; viewers expect a mea culpa with as much culpa as mea.

He apparently decided that this was not going to be a moment of contrition or one when the headline writers and Republicans would have another mea culpa with which to work.

It's a strategy that countless other scandalous athletes have tried (and mostly failed) to employ successfully over the years, but Armstrong is hoping his mea minima culpa with Oprah on Thursday will be the start of rehabilitating his now-shameful image.

The second really depressing aspect of it was that – as some of the more benevolently inclined respondents to editor Krissi Murison's somewhat puzzling mea non culpa with regard to British pop's socioeconomic deracination had already noted – the ailing title has actually improved under her stewardship.

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In addition to more mea culpas with regard to the company data privacy failings and how it plans to control the spread of fake news on its platform, we expect quite a large number of announcements around Facebook's other core developer programs.

Today's post-intrusion protocol usually involves mailing out a few million mea culpas with an offer of free credit-monitoring services.

In his comeback "mea culpa" interview with Vanity Fair, the fashion designer John Galliano, who was sacked by Dior after being arrested in Paris for an antisemitic rant in a bar, has revealed he was banned from reading Keith Richards's autobiography while in rehab for drink and drug addiction.

Many if not most prison memoirs qualify as confessionals, extended mea culpas, often with strong religious overtones and purplish prose.

Systrom's follow-up seems to have placated many users, though some have noted that the company's not-quite-mea-culpa comes with a bit of wiggle room.

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