Word: confession
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...alum who attended Harvard in the 1970s, I must confess to have gotten a chuckle from some of the descriptions of Derek Bok I’ve read over the past week. Ever since it was announced that Bok would return as interim president, he’s been heralded as a beloved and “universally trusted” figure, to cite one Crimson pullquote. Yet what I remember is that, in our day, we undergrads viewed him as a quintessential “suit”—a remote, conflict-averse administrator who many students...
...perhaps, as promptly as he might have). It may be a small story in an age of big ones - an odd minor scene in history's bloody pageant - but if you let it sink down inside your mind and resonate there for just a little while, you have to confess that it?s potent, mythic stuff...
...Greenman seem to be playing a cruel prank on him by only answering to Matt, Jeremiah, and Allan, respectively.Finally, Dragutin Kravic and Dalen Cuff realize that they can’t pretend to be Kyle Koncz and Edwin Buffmire when Columbia comes to town on Jan. 13, so they confess, the real Princeton players are released from their lock-up, and the Tigers proceed to start 3-1 in the Ivies.OK, so it probably didn’t happen like that. But if there are better explanations for the dramatic Princeton turnaround—other than Joe Scott gaining magical...
Gentlemen: 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—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...
Which is what the six around the New York City table are discovering. For nearly three hours, they tell stories about their families, their work, their heartaches, their joys. They discuss their Asian identities and American habits. And they confess how hard it has been to walk an often lonely path. Says Mohip Joarder, 27, an Indian-American computer programmer from Spring Valley, N.Y., "I've never felt like there were people I could talk freely to about this stuff...