• They doubled the payoffs across all outcomes, and they offered far greater rewards for a solitary confessor.

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  • Many of those he writes about obviously no longer see him as reporter or writer, but as confessor and friend.

    ECONOMIST: India

  • His tireless campaign for the canonization of Edward the Confessor finally succeeded.

    BBC: The hidden history of Westminster

  • Despite some hardline attitudes, most political drug confessions share another, usually crucial, characteristic - the confessor's careers and public popularity usually suffer no long-term damage.

    BBC: Tory drug confessors join growing club

  • To this day, the Confessor's shrine in the Abbey attracts worshippers from round the world, including President George W. Bush who prayed there in 2003.

    BBC: The hidden history of Westminster

  • When Neko Case toured in support of 2006's Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, she claimed that she didn't like love songs, and that she was incapable of writing one.

    NPR: Serge Gainsbourg, Neko Case, M. Ward, More

  • She takes Father Damien's cassock and his name and, thus disguised, serves as priest and confessor to the Little No Horse reservation until her (that is his?) death.

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  • Mr Litchfield declares that his role was as Thyssen's confessor.

    ECONOMIST: The Thyssens

  • Landing Armstrong and becoming confessor to the man who for so long looked the least likely candidate in sports to admit to doping is a massive coup for Winfrey.

    NPR: Column: Live Commentary On Armstrong Interview

  • Landy in particular comes to figure as a mother-confessor.

    CNN: Review: 'Bourne' a thrill-a-minute powerhouse

  • His claim to the English throne was based on the assertion it had been promised to him in 1051 by his distant cousin Edward the Confessor - a promise that Harold, Duke of Wessex, had sworn to uphold, he said.

    BBC: 1087: William 'the Conqueror' dies

  • Like some Jesuit father confessor of the 17th century, he has managed to be the spiritual director of every president from Eisenhower to Clinton without ever getting caught tampering in temporal things, though he sometimes boasts of his attempts to influence high politics.

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