Word: confessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Books still in print are generally marked at half the cover price, although common books and books with highlighting cost less. When I confess to highlighting my textbooks, Patrick sympathizes. "I hate it, but I understand. Going to Harvard you pay $26,000 a year. What's $40 for a book...
...have to confess that over spring break I purchased a cheesy tourist t-shirt in the Cayman Islands. It depicts a glaring imitation of a beer bottle label in vivid yellow, green and red. Robert J. Levy '95 informs me that the next step is to "cut off the sleeves and have a buff tank-top for summer." Is this the next wave...
...have to confess that I love the play, despite its somewhat saccharine rags-to-riches plot. I love the way Henry Higgins bombards Liza with continuously more inventive insults, to which she can only respond "coo" and look offended. I still think that "bedraggled guttersnipe" is the height of wit. Henry Higgins has that I'm-too-slick-for-words-but-I-fall-for-women-from- the-underclass kind of style that I find admirable in middle-aged linguists...
...into the trust fund, and is "invested" in Treasury bonds. Which means the Federal Government borrows the $58 billion and spends it on aircraft carriers, welfare checks and the like. The government gets to report a deficit of $193 billion, rather than the $251 billion it would have to confess to if it did not have the use of that Social Security money. At the same time, the Social Security trust fund shows an increase of $58 billion in the money it supposedly has stashed away to pay future pensions...
...resident foreigners have fled since extremists singled them out for assassination. France has shut down two consulates, and diplomats everywhere are keeping out of sight. Western governments that might be expected to help negotiate some kind of conciliation between the Algerian government and the radicals confess to total frustration. France, which once ruled Algeria, is worried that the spreading war will seep into neighboring Tunisia and Morocco and provoke a massive flight of refugees to Europe...