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When veteran FBI agent Larry Smith first heard of the case, he gave police detectives the benefit of the doubt. Smith was skeptical that so many men would confess to a crime they didn't commit. But after reading the case material, Smith felt that the confessions had never been properly checked against the evidence of the case. If they had been, says Smith, the confessions by Joseph Dick, Derek Tice, Danial Williams and Eric Wilson would have been immediately discounted. "The confession should not be the end of the investigation," says Smith. "You should corroborate the facts and circumstances...
...TIME: Alan Greenspan said in recent Congressional hearings that the financial crisis was partly enabled by advances in computer and communications technologies. Do you feel the need to confess...
...full cost of tuition at in-state public universities and gives generous grants to high-achieving students in private colleges. We applaud these states for their willingness to tackle this difficult issue, and we hope to see other states follow their example. At the federal level, we must confess to a certain degree of disappointment. During both terms of George W. Bush’s presidency, he has done very little to make college more affordable for the average American family. And even on this historic Election Day, we see only one of the two major presidential candidates?...
...than to tackle them. Even the strongest, wiliest, most effective Presidents must change shape and shift direction to accommodate these and other forces. An ability to alter course without losing one's way is essential to presidential success. "I claim not to have controlled events," Abraham Lincoln wrote, "but confess plainly that events have controlled me." As the sailor President Franklin D. Roosevelt understood, only rarely does a fair wind blow squarely at the President's back. More typical is the gale blowing from dead ahead or the deceptively strong crosswind. Sometimes the best that one can do is inch...
...black-clad congregation, choosing to wear a green shirt and jeans because “Peter’s favorite color was green, and he loved when I would wear this green shirt.” Li described seeking out Cai even before meeting him. “I confess that I Facebook-friended him before freshman year because I thought he was cute,” Li said, eliciting laughter from the crowd. The pair started going out during their first year at Harvard. Li said that their first official date was in downtown Boston, where they went...