Word: misdemeanors
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...Conservative Republicans were evidently apprehensive, with good cause, about their basic instincts. This fear led to a heightened self-righteousness and inflamed passion to punish the President for his misdemeanor. But the Republicans carried on the flogging too long, and the people got weary. The Bard of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote in his immortal words addressed to the man flogging the whore, "Strip thine own back;/ Thou hotly lust'st to use her in that kind,/ For which thou whipp'st her" (King Lear). NARAYAN SWAMY Chennai, India...
CONVICTED. JACK KEVORKIAN, 70, on misdemeanor charges stemming from a confrontation with police outside a hospital where he was dropping off a body; in Royal Oak, Mich. Kevorkian was slapped with a $900 fine for the conviction, his first...
Renu "Rain" Madan '96 and 12 other students were arraigned on federal misdemeanor charges for civil disobedience Tuesday. If convicted, they could face fines up to $500 or six months in jail...
Clinton made a bad (and very stupid) sexual mistake and then tried to cover it up in an understandable effort to avoid embarrassment for himself, his family and everyone around him. That's it. I don't see much evidence of even a low crime or misdemeanor, and certainly none of any impeachable offense. THEODORE MOSHER Laurel...
Nobody asked me, but[3] I think Barnicle's misdeed was a journalistic misdemeanor, not a felony like Smith's. But since the problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line,[4] some folks thought the Barnicle and Smith cases ought to be treated identically. When the Globe's editor, Matt Storin, rescinded his demand for Barnicle's resignation and instead suspended him without pay for two months, these critics saw a racial double standard. They figured that if Barnicle had been judged by the content of his character, not the color of his skin...