Word: confessionally
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Within moments of Hinckley's arrest the FBI dispatched its agents to weave a net of evidence that would form the legal case against him. They found the unmailed letter to Jodie Foster in his Washington hotel room ?a note that amounted to a highly explicit confession. The investigators...
Knowles proceeds to rig this promising situation unmercifully. His plan calls for the Devon boys to find a scapegoat on whom they can vent their frustration. They are goaded by the editor of the school paper, whose murky motive seems to be a belief that the U.S. needs a good...
Gordon divides The Company of Women into a triptych. Part I begins in 1963 with five middle-aged working women loyally flocking to the weekend retreat of Father Cyprian, an unsentimental, uncompromisingly pure priest who has settled in upstate New York. This is the company of women, secular nuns who...
The Influence of Rousseau upon Dostoevsky. Robin F. Miller, who divides her time between the RRC and a teaching position at Columbia University, just finished a critique of Dostoevsky's The Idiot. In her book, Miller examines the way the author manipulates his readers, forcing them to confront complicated moral...
The investigators have also given lie detector tests to parents and begun helicopter surveillance over remote areas of the city's south side. Retired police officers have been questioning drunks drying out in county and city jails. Information is being fed into a computer to determine any common threads...