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Within half an hour, Smith's schoolmates were lining up 50 deep for a microphone with which to praise God and confess sins ranging from attempted suicide to premarital sex to simple bad manners. Lee, rising to explain why her administration legally could not participate, found herself professing her own Christianity. "One atheist [Madeline Murray O'Hair] took prayer out of the schools," Lee said, but she prayed it would return. "When she said that," notes Judy Mitchell, one of the Christian athletes' faculty advisers, "it broke the ice. Everyone said, 'I can do that, 'cause I'm not going...
...others, George McGovern and John Kenneth Galbraith. Galbraith, Buckley's old pal and ideological nemesis, helps take some of the partisanship out of the proceedings by calling the book "sheer delight from humor and prose, whatever the political faith." I also am a friend of Buckley's, and I confess to viewing him through the lens of an immense affection...
...have obdurate followings in the 40 percentage-plus range. Hillary, politically tone-deaf, makes a neophyte's stupid mistakes. The carpetbagger issue only seems to get worse for her as the months pass. Dark clouds move in. A surprising number of women in both parties confess to being allergic to Hillary...
Gentlemen: I must confess serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial, "Beating the System," you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--the Bad Guys--than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
Having said that, I should confess the first concert I ever saw without my parents was a Hammer one, back in the days when he was M.C. Hammer. I was young. My friend had won a radio call-in contest. How was I to know this would affect my life in the future...