Word: confession
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...Education Ministry plans to set up programs to teach students otherwise, and is looking at ways to improve the exchange of information about problem kids between parents, police and teachers. Meanwhile, police are granting amnesty to gang members who turn themselves in and confess to crimes by April 30?theft of less than $1,000 and beatings from which the victim recovered in less than three weeks will be forgiven. More than 2,500 students have taken advantage of the offer so far. That's a start. But experts are worried that hardened gang members won't be caught, partly...
...Winterreise by noting that Schubert consistently describes reality in a minor key and changes into the major only when he is shifting into fantasy. This is a somewhat technical point, necessarily, for most writing about music is either technical or gush. In addition, Robinson has the wit to confess "that I occasionally make the music say more than it really wants to, that I have extracted unearned intellectual capital from a phrase, a passage, or a modulation whose true significance remains ineffable--i.e., purely musical...
...take other people with him, the legislature prohibited smoking in all public places, including bars and restaurants. Only 10 other states have passed such sweeping laws, including New York, California and Massachusetts--places that rugged, traditional Montanans not only revile as effete and uninhabitable but also will seldom confess to having visited, even if they have family members in them...
...testament of faith, written in stages over his 26-year papacy. He asked that his personal notes be burned and that he be buried in the bare earth, not a tomb. There was nothing to bequeath, for there was little he owned. But there was much to explain and confess, including his doubts over whether it was God's will that he continue as Pope as his speech slurred and his bones bent; he hoped, in the last hard years, that God would "help me to recognize how long I must continue this service...
...even an eagerness--to mix church and state. He has gone deep into Colombian jungles to mediate between leftist guerrillas and right-wing death squads, and once showed up at the house of cocaine king Pablo Escobar disguised as a milkman. Revealing himself, Castrillón Hoyos implored Escobar to confess his sins, which, presumably at some considerable length, the vicious gangster...