ImClone's former chief might have spared himself Wednesday's indictment if he had just fessed up.

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When confronted about their origin, she fessed up to theft and was fired.

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But folks ages 25 to 29 fessed up to being by far the worst (with an average of more than three sins each).

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These days the smile of the motorcycle boy who's just 'fessed up to once "harassing" minibus drivers is friendly and not menacing at all.

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When no one fessed up, the university turned to their emails.

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For most of 2007, our call looked like a bad one, something we fessed up to in our year-end wrap up of 2007 Beltway bets.

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This is how the source put it: "special advisers have fessed up that a spat with banks removes the political pressure from Clegg, which is the coalition priority".

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Then on Tuesday, the perpetrator came forward and 'fessed up.

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In testimony before the House Budget Committee Feb. 9, 2011, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke blew the whistle on these projections when he endorsed large spending reductions and fessed up that unless Congress cuts spending dramatically there is no way to grow our way out of a looming fiscal crisis of the welfare state.

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