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Yes, I knew Courtney wanted to hang with the kids who were most likely to be fast-tracking every experience. She wanted to do what everyone else was doing, to which a parent can sometimes only say, "No, you can't," and to the follow-up of "Why not?," "Because...
As a recent college graduate, I'm pretty certain my next job will not require Senate confirmation hearings. But because I live in a world where the depth of a breath is the difference between the President and the guy who asks, "You want fries with that?" this confession makes...
In some ways an open trial is what they fear most. That could dump a flood of classified information onto the public record. To obtain a conviction for espionage, the government must prove that the information passed to a foreign power affects national security. To say it was classified is...
In the Ames case, the government squeezed a guilty plea from him by promising to drop charges against his wife. It's not clear what comparable leverage it has against Nicholson, except to offer reduced charges in return for a confession. At present, prosecutors don't have enough evidence to...
Of course Chambers invited such attention. His 1952 book Witness, a now forgotten 800-page confession and jeremiad, was overly melodramatic and Doom-of-the-Westy in tone. Yet his 100-page chapter, "The Story of a Middle-Class Family," is among the finest and most frightening of American autobiographies...