Word: confessed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What can opponents of the President's health plan reveal to match this collection of prejudices? I confess proudly: my emulation of the man whose season comes around every December, Ebenezer Scrooge. Every time I hear it said, in accents of panic, that 37 million of my fellow citizens lack health insurance, I find myself thinking, as that keen economist said when he was approached by professional do-gooders, "Are there no workhouses...
...must confess that I am guilty of some academic dishonesty, or at least academic apathy. I didn't read questions 18 through 22 on the last course evaluation I did. I just couldn't. Instead, I blackened the circles corresponding to three's. I figured that three's were nice and neutral...
...have to confess that we'll miss old Mike Beys...
...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...