Word: confession
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...willingly confess that my younger self had a bit of a fascination with the clubs. I was intrigued with what I couldn’t see, and at the way my girlfriends would wait outside eagerly. I even ventured in a few times. It was always just another Harvard party. Often I saw behavior that made me uncomfortable: a member telling a non-member guy to “get the f*ck out of my club” or members prowling the dance floor and sizing up the attributes of the females in the room...
Although researchers freely confess that they don't know how rTMS works, they do have some ideas. It has long been clear that neurons in different parts of the brain can act in concert. Of particular interest are the circuits that link the areas of the cortex that help us reason and plan our lives with more deeply embedded zones of the brain such as the limbic system, where emotions are processed. One theory holds that depression is either caused by or results in an imbalance in the activity in those regions. Applying periodic bursts of electrical current...
...wade through the hundreds of thousands of other crimes - including murder, torture and looting. So the government opted to expedite the process by firing up the gacaca network. In so doing, they have selected a system that is as much about reconciliation as it is about punishment. If suspects confess, they receive lighter sentences and the tribunals use the information to prepare cases against alleged accomplices. Testimony is also used to educate Rwandans about the genocide; many people still don't have a clear idea of what happened, even in their own villages. "We want to reach reconciliation through justice...
...Ntirushwamaboko spent nine years in jail after his arrest for participating in the genocide, before becoming one of the first inmates to confess. He was rewarded with release nearly two years ago, pending trial. "I started realizing that what happened in this country was indeed terrible," he recalled after his trial, which lasted five hours. "The Bible says, 'Tell the truth, ask for forgiveness, and then start looking ahead and asking for eternal life.'" Ntirushwamaboko will be sentenced this week. He faces seven to 12 years, but the time served will be taken into account. As a reward for confessing...
...Symonds' claims of stealing secrets by seducing female embassy and government employees - he says he later tried to confess to authorities but was ignored - were corroborated in a trove of copied kgb documents, some of which found their way into the 1999 book The Mitrokhin Archive: The kgbin Europe and the West. A further instalment of the documents, dealing with espionage operations outside Europe and America, is the basis for an upcoming sequel...