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Ronald Reagan, who knows a thing or two about landslides, telephoned from the White House to confess to the triumphant candidate that he was "envious of your margin of victory." By a lopsided 2,166 votes to 799, Actor Clint - Eastwood, 55, had seized city hall in Carmelby-the-Sea (pop. 4,800) with about as much authority as his famous movie detective Dirty Harry uses in seizing bad guys. Incumbent Charlotte Townsend offered her concession about an hour after the polls had closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: His Honor Dirty Harry | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...also, I blush to confess, sadly deficient in the arts of bookbinding, taxidermy, and whale-skinning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QRR | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...students at Butler College--the part of Princeton from which the alleged precipitators of the conflict belong, were banned from the dining hall until the students reponsible for the fight confess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: class cuts | 4/12/1986 | See Source »

...like all of this belongs in the CUE guide, you'd be quite right, but for some strange reason, they've never printed a thing I've written. As much as I have tried to warn people, my voice has been strangled by a conspiracy of silence. Okay, I confess; I've never been there when they handed the CUE forms...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Professing Some Hatred | 3/11/1986 | See Source »

...confess I am at a loss for a collegiate tack of equal scope and vision....I hope that, in view of our long-standing friendship despite disagreement, you will not be offended by my imitation. It is, after all, a kind of tribute...

Author: By Joseph Menn, | Title: Platonic Dialogue? | 11/19/1985 | See Source »

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