And here I have to make a confession.

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The film resembles "Independence Day" in several ways, the most obvious being the beating that the White House takes. (Also the C-130's eerie ability to defend itself against our Air Force interceptors, at least for a while, by putting out a futuristic force field.) But there's a crucial difference, and to discuss it I must first make a confession.

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"My feeling is that he came forward because he's been in a pretty bad place since the truth has emerged, and the only way that he can rebuild to begin his life is to make a full confession of all the things he did, " Walsh said.

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Turning at this relatively late date to some kind of Hail Mary of bombast and this is the speech you would get would make for a painful double confession: that the economic game has been lost, and that this is all they can think to replace it with.

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But first, Shahriar Afshar, a visiting research professor at Rowan University in New Jersey, has a confession to make.

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Piven, age 47, is eager to continue his English adventure as the retailing legend, but has a confession to make: He's no shopaholic.

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And I have a confession to make here.

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Now I want to make another confession, though I'd rather think of it as sharing a revelation.

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