21.   The private apology came when new coach Doc Rivers made it clear that he wanted the team to keep Hardaway.

22.   Opposition politicians, however, indicated the apology came too late and was not spontaneous.

23.   But most women have refused to accept it, saying it is not enough and that apologies should come from the government itself.

24.   But some of them were not satisfied, insisting that the apology come not from the government but from the Nationalist Party.

25.   First came the apology.

26.   Seoul officials said a North Korean apology should come from Chun Kum Chol, a senior party-government official who signed the rice deal in Beijing.

27.   The apology came after a decade of denial.

28.   The apology came during a meeting with Christodoulos.

29.   The apology came after three weeks of U.S.-North Korea negotiations in New York.

30.   The apology came in a letter to British Prime Minister John Major, but was it an official apology targetted at Europeans or a product of domestic politics?