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...certain kind of courtroom drama, there comes a point at which the guilty party confesses in open court. Few people would have expected a moment like that to emerge from any trial of the 9/11 suspects at Guantánamo--terrorists aren't prone to making their captors' tasks easier. But on Dec. 8, in a hushed and heavily guarded courtroom, alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four of his co-defendants abruptly offered to confess to coordinating the attacks--in effect, pleading guilty to the murder of 3,000 people. With family members of some of the 9/11 victims...
...confess: When I read on Tuesday that TRL had run its final episode on Sunday, my first thoughts were not about new media, pop culture, or Heidi Montag. My reaction was completely self-centered: a melodramatic response to a strange and peripheral reminder of the passage of time. A generation of college kids who grew up on TRL didn’t care about its death, and as I didn’t watch on Sunday night, Daly said, “We’re old now.” We?...
When veteran FBI agent Larry Smith first heard of the case, he gave police detectives the benefit of the doubt. Smith was skeptical that so many men would confess to a crime they didn't commit. But after reading the case material, Smith felt that the confessions had never been properly checked against the evidence of the case. If they had been, says Smith, the confessions by Joseph Dick, Derek Tice, Danial Williams and Eric Wilson would have been immediately discounted. "The confession should not be the end of the investigation," says Smith. "You should corroborate the facts and circumstances...
...TIME: Alan Greenspan said in recent Congressional hearings that the financial crisis was partly enabled by advances in computer and communications technologies. Do you feel the need to confess...
...full cost of tuition at in-state public universities and gives generous grants to high-achieving students in private colleges. We applaud these states for their willingness to tackle this difficult issue, and we hope to see other states follow their example. At the federal level, we must confess to a certain degree of disappointment. During both terms of George W. Bush’s presidency, he has done very little to make college more affordable for the average American family. And even on this historic Election Day, we see only one of the two major presidential candidates?...