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...thing most Americans are ready to confess is that while they are talking more openly about sex, they are increasingly confused about the moral values involved. Fully 68% agreed with the statement that "it's a lot better to have more openness about things like sex, homosexuality, premarital and extramarital relations." But 61% felt that "it's getting harder and harder to know what's right and what's wrong these days." Of these people, whom the Yankelovich survey categorized as "morally confused," the highest incidence occurred among those over 50 (65%) and, surprisingly, among those...
Donald S. Connery's Guilty Until Proven Innocent traces this bizarre case, showing how prosecutors almost destroyed an impressionable but inofensive teenager. The police forced Reilly to confess he killed his mother. The illegitimate son's allegedly stormy relationship with his mother was named as the motive. Connery goes beyond outlining the skeletal facts of the case, focusing on how Falls Village reacted to the case. Two families--one Jewish and the other Italian--virtually adopted Reilly after the murder, mortgaging their homes to provide bail money and hiring him to babysit for their children in order to demonstrate their...
Making confusion worse, the experts nearly all use the same numbers-but confess that those numbers are far from fully reliable. Obviously, a key figure is the size of the world's pumpable oil reserves. Yet the most widely quoted data on global proven reserves come from trade journals, notably the Tulsa-based Oil and Gas Journal. The magazines get their figures from a hodgepodge of sources, particularly the governments of producing countries and the oil companies that operate there. Sometimes the sources give out widely divergent numbers, and an embarrassing amount of guesstimating goes on. On balance...
...points out in an essay called "Prison Memoirs," is that there is very little a writer can offer his torturers. He writes alone, so there are no names to give the torturer; his books are evidence of his crime against the regime, and he has no other acts to confess. The SAVAK's torturers demand that the intellectual recant, publicly renounce his work, deny the validity of his writing. Baraheni writes...
...became of the others in the Komite. What of the women who sang to keep up the spirits of the other prisoners? What of the man under torture because SAVAK's agents found an unread copy of "The Communist Manifesto" in his room? Like Baraheni, they have nothing to confess, nothing to offer their torturers but a denial of their existence...