Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pollard, you may wonder. Is he one of the other Iran-Contra hoods whom Bush let off the hook? Sorry. My take on the whole pardon thing is a bit different than the others that have graced this page in the last two weeks. I'm less concerned about guys like Lawrence Walsh and Robert MacFarlane than about a Jewish man named Pollard marking time in a federal penitentiary. Since Casper W. Weinberger '38 helped secure a term of life imprisonment for Pollard, only Bush could have ended his excessive punishment by granting Pollard a pardon. But Bush let Weinberger...
...sure is nice to have friends in high places. The smug look that Caspar W. Weinberger '38 gave reporters at his post-pardon press conference says it all. Cap's old friend George Bush got him off the hook before his trial on charges of lying to Congress even began...
...Paris agreement had several purposes. One was to remove a large barrier to U.S.-Soviet-Chinese detente. Another was to get the international community off the hook of recognizing the Khmer Rouge as the government of Cambodia; elections would in effect legitimize much of the present administration in Phnom Penh in coalition with other parties. Equally important, the peace plan would separate the Khmer Rouge from China, their principal sponsor; in return for having its clients admitted to the political game in Phnom Penh, Beijing agreed to stop supplying them with weapons. Including the Khmer Rouge in a settlement...
...Crimson narrowed the margin to ten points, 60-50, on an Arturo Llopis hook in the lane...
...rickeys and cheesesteak sandwiches to generations of Adams House residents, Crimson and Lampoon writers and Cantabrigians. During the week, it was the study break hangout of choice for many a scholar pulling an all-nighter. On weekends, it provided refreshment and jukebox selections to the drunken post-party, pre-hook up crowd...