Word: crime
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deserves better than to have Clinton romping around sub-Saharan Africa, counting cheap graces by apologizing for sins this nation never committed." What's more, Buchanan believes that since his own ancestors never owned slaves, and--being of Irish descent, were persecuted themselves--he should be absolved from the crime of slavery...
...functions, one might add, that could actually keep students from doing other things that the law has deemed evil, like purchasing alcohol before living for 21 years. Despite the occasional "Debauchery Dance," House Committee events could not possibly be more innocuous. In a city fighting a daily battle against crime, drugs and poverty, doesn't the Commission have better things to do with its time...
...public good. Decades of Congress-bashing by opportunistic politicians coupled with high-profile scandals seem to confirm Mark Twain's famous statement that "there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." Representatives such as Jay Kim (R-Calif.), the first member of Congress convicted of a federal crime to cast a vote in the House (he was found guilty of accepting illegal campaign contributions), only confirm this perception...
...elicit awe. Although the latter is far more noble than the former, both are ultimately essentializing and patronizing pictures of an "other culture." It is only Pella that can sort through such simplifications and make fair value judgements about individual Archbuilders, as her inquisition at the end regarding a crime an Archbuilder was accused of committing demonstrates...
...Arlen Specter hinted that you might want to spare Republicans a long national nightmare unless you have an open-and-shut case. But your crusade is all the chattering classes have left. Better that you be the first I.C. to prosecute a cover-up of a sin, not a crime, than that we return to covering IMF funding and NATO expansion. As you put it, Vaya con Dios...