"I must have the wrong number, excuse it, please".
But most just hang around on the streets, the likelihood that they will join the criminal underclass increasing by the day.Jesse Jackson is wrong to excuse the behaviour of the Decatur seven because they happen to be black, and maliciously wrong to accuse the local school board of racism.
In oral arguments last week, lawyers representing some New York City public school parents said that Mr. Steiner was wrong to excuse her lack of a master's degree and that a compromise to place a strong academic deputy at her side could not legally compensate for her lack of experience in teaching and academics.
Being brought up in Harlem gave me the gift to rationalize right from wrong and excuse myself from difficult situations".
In the wrong hands, the excuse of changing one's genes for the purpose of having a healthier life can be perpetrated for many unethical changes.
The Guardian reports that a spokesperson for the judge ruling on the case said that the experts found there were many things wrong with this excuse, one big one being the lack of mice corpses.
But each new incident represents both a need and a fresh opportunity to say the same things over again: We're all in it together; there is no "us" versus "them"; Muslims and Americans are not each other's enemies; the fact that terrorism is wrong does not excuse bigotry.
Do they excuse wrong behaviors?
When the prediction proved wildly wrong, the government excused itself with a classic Rumsfeld-ism: "The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence".
"Using the fear of terrorism that we all have, the fear of the unknown that we all share, the fear of enemies that hate us, is a duplicitous and deeply wrong means of excusing something as base as spying on the citizens of your own country," he said.
