Word: admited
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...stuff out, can he be producing anything substantial? He can, of course. Vonnegut's rueful, wondering satire in Slaughterhouse Five, Player Piano and half a dozen other books says "Goodbye, better luck next time" to human society in the late 20th century. That said, however, an admirer must admit that Vonnegut's novelizing occasionally ticks on reflexively when there seems to be nothing in particular on his mind. So with Bluebeard, whose hero is a wealthy, one-eyed old man named Rabo Karabekian, a magazine illustrator in his youth, then a soldier during World War II, then, briefly, an acclaimed...
Cosby bristles at the accusation. "All I can tell you is that I completed every requirement that I was asked to complete," he says. Though later students at the school admit that Cosby's program was "not the most rigorous in the world," university officials insist he was given no special treatment. Cosby's dissertation, says Professor Louis Fischer, who was acting dean at the time, "was a very, very thorough, defensible study of the impact on children's values of the systematic watching of the Fat Albert program...
Supplied in part by American donations, the gunslinging rangers have so far captured 21 poachers and killed 29. But the gangs keep coming, and parks officials admit that they are in a losing battle. Their only hope is to slow down illegal hunting in order to buy time for two other efforts to save the rhinos. One is capturing and moving as many of the animals as possible away from the Zambezi Valley to safer sanctuaries. The other involves an international campaign of diplomacy and media pressure to shut down the trade in rhino horn...
Glass, who is perhaps best known for his reporting of the 1985 TWA hostage drama for ABC News, was quick to admit that he had made a terrible blunder by visiting Beirut earlier this year for a book he still intends to write about the Middle East. Glass was driving with a friend, Ali Osseiran, 40, the son of Lebanon's Defense Minister, when the pair suddenly found themselves sandwiched between two cars filled with armed men. The kidnapers were presumed to be members of the radical, pro-Iranian Hizballah (Party of God), the organization linked to a series...
...down in the gritty black soil, the gunmen coolly shot and killed their victims one by one, then escaped into the verdant hillside. When real Colombian soldiers arrived to investigate the slaughter, they got no information from local villagers. Though many people heard and saw the shootings, none would admit it for fear of meeting a similar fate. The official conclusion: the incident was just another in a long line of vendettas among the thousands of emerald hunters afflicted with "green fever...