Word: confessant
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...staggering numbers of women who inexplicably take their husbands' names left me vaguely queasy, similar to the way I felt on seeing pictures of Hillary Rodham Clinton (the thinking man's pin-up) in Vogue (The First Lady's mother did, however, confess that HRC bought her wedding dress off the rack only days before the wedding...
...literate reader that Stager, like Lowell was moved by anti-Semitic impulses. This is libel. I am told that Peretz has denied that he meant to brand Stager an anti-Semite--a charge which if believed could end Stager's career as archaeologist in Israel. I must confess that I regard his demurral, if correctly reported to me, as disingenuous...
...while modest Harvard students would not confess to looking too closely, many noted black and orange "P"'s painted on the men's bodies...
...suspect that most Harvard students, if forced to take sides, would deem homosexuality morally acceptable. But I suspect also that most Harvard students--and many Americans--would confess privately that they are morally ambivalent and internally divided on the issue. I count myself among this silent, groping majority...
...Kennedy airport. He then made his way to his hometown in Egypt, where he was hauled into custody by government agents, who, according to Mahmud's wife, stripped him naked, hung him by his feet and burned his genitals. "The Egyptians told him that if he didn't confess ((to the bombing)), they would rape me and his mother," says Marianne, who by then had arrived in Egypt with her children. Mahmud's 15- year-old brother Sayed was also abducted. According to the family, Sayed was severely beaten until Mahmud finally confessed. "Every time we ask Sayed what happened...