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...trial is practically de rigueur. Imagine what would happen if a career criminal who's used to being picked up by NYPD Blue gets busted by the Law & Order detectives instead. I picture him sitting in the interview room saying, "Isn't there anybody around here I can confess to? I'd really like to get this off my chest." Detective Briscoe doesn't even look up. He's dialing one of the assistant district attorneys who will be doing the prosecuting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...just as odd as the first. Bingo (Jesse Hawkes) wanders in looking for his lost sister, whom he is rumored to be sleeping with too. In a "Reservoir Dogs"-type violence-fest, Goose and Tom-Tom beat Bin-go into near oblivion, trying to get him to confess to stealing Lorraine's jewels, which he eventually does. Lorraine then orders Goose to kill him. After giving Bingo one last chance to see his sister, Goose leads him outside to be shot. Shots are heard, and the stage plunges into darkness. Though the voices of Goose, Tom-Tom and Lulu...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, | Title: Haunting 'Goose' Is Bizarre | 8/8/1997 | See Source »

...confess to being a committed ask-Marger," she said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Popular Kennedy School Asst. Dean Dies at 66 | 8/8/1997 | See Source »

...also confess that our fund-raising system is broken. Congressmen, candidates and Presidents all spend too many hours each day dialing for dollars--and not plotting the nation's future. And, increasingly, the hunt has taken the Clinton White House into dangerous territory--namely, other countries. Indeed, since 1994, both parties went overseas to find soft money because they were tapped out at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 12 STEPS TO RECOVERY | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

MOSCOW: The old KGB is back with an offer many Russians can't refuse. Just pick up the phone, dial 224-3500, and confess you're a spy. Agree to become a double agent, and Mother Russia will pay you twice what you were getting before (a bold claim in a country where even the soldiers haven't been paid in months). The plan is to get a little back from the foreign spy agencies who have swooped into Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union, scooping up precious military secrets from Russians for a song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spies Like Us | 7/10/1997 | See Source »

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