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This is class exploitation, pure and simple. What next--"homeless people so hungry they eat their own scabs"? Or would the next step be to pay people outright to submit to public humiliation? For $50 would you confess to adultery in your wife's presence? For $500 would you reveal your 13-year-old's girlish secrets on Ricki Lake? If you were poor enough, you might...
...must confess to being quite ignorant of Rascoff's reading of Jewish history. I seem unable to recall any of my history teachers in Israel proposing such a positive reading of anti-Semitism. Luckily, Israelis deny the kind of perverse logic that Rascoff offers. Most Israelis possess a healthy sense of their own identity and a firm enough grasp of the complexities of Israeli reality to avoid premature declarations of failure whenever the image they see in the mirror is not the loveliest of them...
...members of the committee were not informed of subsequent drafts...I do confess that that's not something that occurred to me," Carnesale said. "That would not be where logic would ordinarily lead...
...Abraham Lincoln wrote in a letter to Albert G. Hodges, "I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." Lincoln was often extremely modest, but this remark was the result of more than humility. Lincoln, particularly as the Civil War stretched into its fourth year, was painfully aware of how much was beyond his control. David Herbert Donald in his biography Lincoln carefully examines the life of Abraham Lincoln from his birth in rural Kentucky through his death...
ATONEMENT IS AN ANCIENT AND ARTful tradition in Washington, when politicians kneel to confess their faults and promise to sin no more. Maybe it was the example of hundreds of thousands of men converging on the capital in a call to genuine repentance that inspired President Clinton and Bob Dole to do some penance themselves last week. But in their case, the gestures of apology wound up looking more shameful than the original...