21.   Carter declined to offer specifics afterward, but another Ranger said he believed that Resendez-Ramirez had made no confessions during those interviews.

22.   Discussing her career recently, the actress Reese Witherspoon felt compelled to make a confession.

23.   Dissidents, including the well-known writer Ali Akbar Saidi-Sirjani, have been arrested in recent weeks and forced to make public confessions.

24.   He said that adults should not be making confessions that give children any justification for self-destructive behavior.

25.   He made his confession just as President Clinton was preparing to go on the air with his State of the Union speech.

26.   His defense lawyers played the tape to try to show that Murad, who has since recanted, was tortured into making the confession.

27.   His public confession was apparently made without his attorney present.

28.   I am going to make a confession here.

29.   I make this confession because we are at it again, wringing our well-intentioned hands, holding high-minded symposia to scope out the reasons our children have abandoned books.

30.   In jail, subsequent court proceedings revealed, they were beaten into making confessions.