Confessions
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I do not want it understood that the Catholic Church has advised me to make these public disclosures and confessions.
From Literature
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Wilder, now a professor at Georgetown University, notes that the fallout is far from over, as Zhang and other senior officers are likely being “sweated” in detention centers to produce confessions and reveal their wider patronage networks, suggesting a much deeper wave of political cleansing to come.
Duvall’s legacy includes a wide range of films, from “True Grit” to “True Confessions.”
From Los Angeles Times
She co-hosts Confessions, a monthly reading series.
From Los Angeles Times
It said Mohammadi "was forced to make self-incriminating confessions in the investigation phase which he later retracted in court", but the court then rejected this.
From Barron's
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