Word: confession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...150th lb class. That committed him to wrestling at the same weight the following day at Columbia but instead he wrestled at 142 lbs. That is cheating. I fail to see the "technical mistake" (despite the use of the word "technical" five times in Strauss" article) though I must Confess that Harvard's coach has made other similar mistakes in the past which I should be delighted to chronicle, if challenged...
...might say all of these examples deal with women. I used to think that women were more likely to distinguish between the office and the home because they may have reflected more on how their father's career in the olden days over-whelmed mother and children. Thus I confess that I regret at least one feature of the widespread professionalization among women at Harvard. Women are now apparently just as likely as men to disregard the autonomy of the home. Of course, just as many examples can be given of the same long standing regrettable behavior among...
...come times in the course of a presidency when events seem to swirl be yond matter reach and influence of the man in the Oval Office, no matter who he is or how strong he may be. Even Abraham Lincoln despaired. "I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me," he wrote, a year before the end of the Civil...
...told them he had been tied by his hands and feet to a long stick, suspended by the stick and beaten with clubs. He said that he received no medical attention, and that he had been gagged and told to raise a finger when he was ready to confess...The man suffered from broken bones that were never set....He was released after a year and a half and walks with a limp...
...evidence was mounting last week in the trial that began on Dec. 28, but Williams, 23, a freelance news photographer, would confess to nothing. He is charged with killing Nathaniel ("Silky") Cater, 27, and Jimmy Ray Payne, 21 , and is implicated as well in the deaths of ten more among the 29 blacks murdered in Atlanta during the two years preceding his arrest. Lacking any confession, not to mention a single eyewitness or a murder weapon, prosecutors had to argue their case on circumstantial grounds. Last week the prosecution rested, after attempting to lay out an intricate web of Witness...