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...tight little chiseler, while the movie-star vamp has a fugitive innocence the more theatrical for being real. Chandler's greatest technical flaw -- his way, ironically, with plots -- arose from the simple fact that he felt the only real mystery worth investigating was morality, and why only the innocent confess, while murderers are brought to no justice but their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Private Eye, Public Conscience | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

Perhaps. Not everyone, however, feels guilty. One man called in to confess he had embezzled $10 million in a computer scam -- and happily announced that % he was well and living in the Bahamas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: True Confessions by Telephone | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

Xueliang took part in a three-day demonstration attended by nearly 30,000 students to force the provincial governor of Hofei to confess corruption...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Red Guard Teaches Sections | 9/28/1988 | See Source »

Glasser writes that Library officials confess "that there is no way to predict how many people will use the newly installed terminals or how the technology will affect the research habits of the community as a whole." Why not? Didn't the staff at OIT check with other universities that have been using this kind of new-fangled technology for the last ten years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLLIS Bugs | 9/27/1988 | See Source »

...students wondered how she withstood such treatment. "I don't know why you just didn't confess and get out of there," wrote Damian Banick. "But I admire your courage." Declared Nickie Borley: "I would have died if they put me through that kind of pain." Said Jacquie Hollingsworth: "I'm not sure that I would have stood up for what I believed in, like you did, but then again, I'm not half as brave as you are." Nearly all had questions: "Do you have nightmares?" "Do you still have scars from the handcuffs and the kicking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Aug. 1, 1988 | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

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