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...some degree in the caper, Jackson's reported versions of the story maintain his legal innocence. However, this was never tested in court because Jackson and the other black accused of the crime pleaded guilty. In Soledad Brother, Jackson explains why; "I accepted a deal--I agreed to confess and spare country court costs in return for a light county jail sentence. I confessed but when time came for sentencing, they tossed me into the penitentiary with one to life...
Whether George Jackson's confession to a $70 stick-up was elicited this way or not is perhaps an open question. All that is certain is that he did confess. Perhaps he did so because he knew that he was guilty or knew that the state had enough evidence to convince a jury that he was, and, as many men faced with conviction have, hoped to barter a confession for some personal gain. Such is often the case when someone under suspicion or indictment turns state's evidence and trades his fingering of others for a grant of immunity from...
...Mass is about failure, about the fact that we have come to this extraordinary point of evolution and yet we are still killing one another officially, which is an enormous failure of the human race. And it is one of the main things we have to confess in the Mass. I have been interested in Catholicism since I was very young, and I learned a lot from my wife, who was brought up a Catholic. I was naturally very eager not to offend the Catholics or the Kennedys, and yet there was pretty violent stuff. You see, I have...
...interpreters, bodyguards, valets, cooks, waiters and chauffeurs." Even more bizarre, Morrison's introduction points out that Prescott, "a Chekhovian-looking character" with "a weary sense of defeat," fleshed out his historical material with imaginary dialogue and even occasional fictitious characters. Morrison obviously has some misgivings. "Often, I confess, I was unable to separate 'fact' from 'invention,' so deftly did Prescott weave them together to give the illusion of veracity. Was Prescott mad, I wondered? Was he taking revenge on innocent readers like myself for the grotesqueries that he had experienced in international politics...
...Fighting Pollution. The companies have derived some unexpected benefits from the delay. Oilmen confess that if they had crash-built the pipeline two years ago, they would have made horrendous mistakes. Since then, they have learned how to deal more expertly with the fierce conditions of climate and geography. To protect the swampy tundra terrain, the companies use offshore drilling techniques. They have developed new strains of grass to grow on disturbed tundra, and they plan to install monitoring devices that would automatically turn off oil flow minutes after a leak is detected. The port of Valdez will have probably...