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Solidarity Symbol. Her persecutors charged her vaguely with "counterrevolutionary organization and agitation against the Soviet State," and refused to give her a trial, but demanded that she sign a confession anyhow. Not knowing what to confess, she refused-and drew a five-year sentence in Siberia as a "socially dangerous element." Among the starved, louse-bitten, work-weary inmates of Karaganda concentration camp, Comrade Buber lost her last illusions about the Kremlin dictatorship. One early incident was enlightening: when she asked for a "reopening" of her case, she was tossed into a punishment compound...
...Many citizens hope he will belatedly confess his inadequacy and resign," it began. "If he does not do so, other methods may be considered...
...century later, thousands of men & women still answer Mrs Fox's query with a fervent yes. For the Fox sisters, though they later went on tour to confess that their apparent psychic powers were an "absolute fraud," really started something. By 1854 (while the Fox sisters were still "psychic"), 15,000 earnest believers had signed a petition demanding that Congress appoint a committee of scientists to investigate such phenomena.* And belief in spiritualism continues to flourish. This month, Britain's House of Commons gravely read for the second time a bill to protect "genuine" mediums by repealing...
...stand taken for Thursday calls for an Honor Council which would try students accused by others of cheating. This plan defeated a rival proposal, whereby students would voluntarily confess cheating to the Honor Council, by the slim margin of three votes...
...known these things, you see, until I scanned your Saturday supplement. And, I must confess, I still nurse hopes that your writers' editorializing may have been a traffic inaccurate. Could it be that there are (despite the article) a happy few that are not the vocational automatons you describe? Could it be that some forsake the ways of the Pharisees and do not seek to conform to whatever this "Yale Man" is that you mention (and of which no one I know has heard) I Could it be that your writers operated from a Socratic basket in mid-air, trying...