Word: commiting
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...spend the rest of her time doling out grants and donations and lending her name to causes like stopping sweatshop labor and protesting the imprisonment of two of the "Angola 3" Black Panther members being held in a Louisiana state prison for a murder many say they didn't commit. Writing on her website recently, Roddick said: "The most exciting part of my life is now - I believe the older you get, the more radical you become." She had already transformed the cosmetics industry, awakened the world to social responsibility and proved there was money in caring - but Anita Roddick...
Plotkin, a former Lowell House resident who was arrested for the scheme in April 2006, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud and eight counts of insider trading in a U.S. District court in New York...
...Lido, a paradisical Adriatic island, Venice Film Festival audiences were shown the horrors of war - and the U.S. occupation of Iraq - in two American movies premiering here. Brian De Palma's Redacted dramatizes the inhuman violence U.S. soldiers can be driven to commit in a country of which they know little, except that death can erupt anywhere. In the Valley of Elah, from Paul Haggis, who received a Best Picture Academy Award for Crash, enlists three other Oscar winners (Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron and Susan Sarandon) in a story of the war brought home...
...Flake (Patrick Carroll) think it'd be fun to return to a house they had searched and pay a little more attention to the pretty Iraqi girl who lives there. They do that, dragging along some of their reluctant buddies, and in a long scene that shocks and sickens, commit their crimes of passion and vengeance...
...Craig had the misfortune to commit his sin on the heels of Foley, Vitter, and others," said Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "The tolerance in the G.O.P. ranks for misdeeds is at a low ebb. Republicans are facing yet another tough election where they are behind the eight ball, and the activists are disillusioned...