Coming Clean Is Only Play for Penn State, Paterno: Harlan Coben
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Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Dear Penn State: Please do the rightthing. Come clean. Totally and completely. There is a time andplace for privacy and discretion. This is neither.
We will ask questions. You need to give full answers. Don’tsugarcoat them. It’s too late for that (always was, in fact).Don’t spin or check with focus groups or worry about how youranswers will sound. They will sound bad. But accept that theywill also sound better than more lies would -- and that theycannot possibly sound worse than what we’ve already heard.