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...asks his American guards to consider the principles that governed his behavior: "It seems to me that it is a proper object in war, to take advantage of a rebel officer's desire to return to his proper allegiance, don't you think?" He hopes, but does not beg, that his life will be spared. His monologue ends abruptly, but not before conveying the memorable impression of a man who comes to peace with himself in a time...
...trapped by contradictions that he never even sees. In a country of boy soldiers who are "already so familiar with death that they have lost respect for it," in a country that has lost the equivalent of an entire year's production to war the causes of conflict beg to be addressed...
...President began by quoting from the same folk ballad that he used in acknowledging defeat at the 1976 Republican Convention: "I am wounded but not slain. I will rest awhile. But I will rise and fight again." Then Reagan uttered six words that Presidents use sparingly at best: "I beg you for your vote." The G.O.P. Senators, awkwardly divided between loyalists and mavericks, at first responded to the President's plaintive appeal with stiff formality. Then one of the rebels, Senator Steven Symms of Idaho, suggested that all 13 holdouts switch their votes as a bloc. "I wouldn...
Finally Reagan and the Republicans emerged from their conference. We learned later that the President had engineered his own humiliation, failing to win any Senator to his side, even when he reportedly said, "I beg you for this vote...
...broke open the scandal last year by implicating Boesky, drew a term of two years, making him the fourth insider trader this year who will do hard time. Levine had faced as much as 20 years on four counts of securities fraud, perjury and income-tax evasion. "I beg you, let me put the pieces of my life together again," he implored U.S. District Judge Gerard Goettel before the sentencing. In deciding on two years, Goettel cited Levine's "extraordinary" cooperation with investigators, which had helped them uncover a "nest of vipers" on Wall Street...