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...principal who has dealt with adolescent behavior for nearly three decades, I have found that it is not very difficult to distinguish between those who are truly sorry for their misbehavior and those who are only sorry they got caught. Most other Americans can tell the difference too. JOHN CAPANNA Pasadena, Calif. The simple words of the Rev. Jim Casy in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath provide meaningful commentary on the Clinton-Lewinsky matter: "There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 14, 1998 | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...first place, Principessa Jane di San Faustino (born Miss Jane Campbell) never stays in a palace in Venice, but has had an apartment in the Excelsior-Palace Hotel. Lido, for many years, holding court in front of her capanna on the beach daily, where (even during the era of knee-length frocks) she has been a well-marked figure with her white hair and her long simple white gowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 10, 1932 | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

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