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Hays had little choice except to confess. Liz Ray, an emotionally flaky, sensually attractive woman, had detailed her sex life with him to reporters for the Washington Post and let them listen as the Congressman reassured her on the phone that he would continue their sex-and-job arrangement despite his new marriage. She is understood to have even more explicit tape recordings. "I have proof," she insists...
...confess that. . . I like sex-one might say I love it." While he is graciously appreciative of his doctors' skills, he is also willing to point out their occasional fluffs...
There are no round-the-corner lines yet for the new penitential rite. But the failure to confess does not keep people away from Communion, as it once did. Churches across the U.S. report an increase in the proportion of their worshipers who receive weekly Communion-from about one-fifth of them a decade ago to more than half today. One possible reason: the newer Catholic teaching suggests that it is hard-not easy-for a reasonably religious person to commit mortal sins, the principal impediment that would keep someone from Communion...
Finally, I must confess a sentimental attachment to ROTC. It saved me from the draft in '69, kept me from going to Vietnam as an infantryman, and may conceivably have saved my life. Had I not been able to get into ROTC in graduate school, I would have been, of necessity, a more direct and odious agent of US imperialism than I became. It's convenient that seniors in '76 don't face that choice, but I hope you'll forgive a little Crimson-like subjectivity in my criticism. Richard K. Betts Lecturer in Government
Only the winning team makes it to the NCAAs, which prompted Harvard's top man Alex Vik to confess before the squad teed off at the Agawam golf course in Providence, "We have to win, and I don't think we can. Statistically and rationally I don't think it's possible...