Top administration officials have promised to continue looking into the charges, and so will we,

[But] for anybody in this business, ... the big challenges are: How do you continue to keep print magazines exciting and viable while also taking advantage of the Web? How do you attract younger readers? And what can we do to make the strongest possible case to the advertising community? John is in the same boat with everyone else in trying to figure those things out.

The bottom-line pressures at Time Inc. are no secret,

in a position to know the things he was telling us.

On the other hand, clearly, our report played a role -- and for that we feel terrible,

We regret that we got any part of our story wrong, and extend our sympathies to victims of the violence and to the U.S. soldiers caught in its midst,