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...HAVE, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial, "Beating the System," you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--the bad guys--rather than one of you. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last 11 years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
...blame-the-victim. But could it be that the cumulative blackening of the sepulchers of Camelot is responsible for one of the most curious new trends in conspiracy-theory history -- the increasing number of people coming forward not merely to claim they know who did it but to confess they...
...Next to confess was Robert Easterling, a Mississippi ex-con who told journalist Henry Hurt in 1985 that he killed Kennedy on behalf of Fidel Castro. And then, in 1989, there was the son of a Dallas policeman who pushed his own (now dead) father forward as the grassy-knoll assassin, introducing some curious confessional documentation he claimed to have found in an attic. (The credibility problem of assassination buffs has not been enhanced by the double standard with which they seem to accept indiscriminately every self-proclaimed assassin or grassy-knoll eyewitness who comes forward, but tear to shreds...
...confidence in an ultimate allied victory, Bush now admits that he had some doubts about the U.S. forces' ability to carry out his intentions with the devastating efficiency his commanders claimed. "I've got to confess that I wondered, when ((Air Force Chief of Staff)) Tony McPeak came up to Camp David and briefed me on what we could do with air power. I turned to ((National Security Adviser)) Brent Scowcroft or somebody; I said, 'Does this general know what he's talking about? I mean, this is awesome.' " Later, after McPeak had visited the U.S. staging ground in Saudi...
...action -- don't ask how -- to enable his beloved to escape prison and flee to Philadelphia. The scheme depends on selling her diamond necklace, which changes hands roughly as often as the Rhine gold. In the end Marie decides to accept her grisly historical fate, though she does confess that she has fallen in love with Beaumarchais...