Lance Armstrong-style confessionals may be overrated, but they serve a purpose.

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Activities include the usual get-togethers and seminars, but the secret EO ingredient is off-the-record confessionals modeled along the lines of Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step groups.

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Do female journalists and content creators undermine themselves (and other women) by publishing odes to froyo, breakup confessionals or a slew of new girl-titled TV shows?

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Another accuses Benedict--again, before he became pope--of failing to take action against a U.S. priest accused of molesting up to 200 deaf boys in Milwaukee confessionals and dormitories.

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Chirac, who dismisses the Commission as a bunch of civil servants with no political role, chose to leave them out of the "confessionals" he conducted with all the other leaders , seeking to gauge their bottom lines in negotiation.

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