Word: pardon
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...legal and diplomatic experts apparently still hadn't decided what to do if Jenkins did fly to Japan, although they have several options. An unequivocal demand for Jenkins, one that left Japan no way to say no, could run the risk of alienating Koizumi's government. But an outright pardon, which Japan has suggested, would send the wrong message about discipline and desertion to U.S. troops. A third tack, according to one diplomatic source, would be for the U.S. to ask Japan to hand over Jenkins?but not complain when it fails to do so. In that case, Jenkins would...
...each school who are recruited in those sports, as a group, now…meet a standard based on the average academic qualifications of all students at that school.” Since Harvard’s average academic qualifications are higher than those of Cornell’s, pardon me if I refer to this as the “separate, but equal” clause...
...drug ties when he was a police chief in the 1990s. Philippe denies the charge. Gousse insists the cases of Chamblain and other Raboteau convicts - like Jean Tatoune, a rebel-army leader whose conviction appeal is still pending - will be treated impartially. But Gousse has already hinted he'll pardon Tatoune, and before Chamblain ceremoniously walked into a jail cell last month he was hailed by Latortue as a "freedom fighter" and served briefly as a judge in the port city of Gonaives, where Raboteau is located. According to Pierre Esperance, director of the National Coalition for Haitian Rights...
DIED. ED GREGORY JR., 66, colorful carnival owner and felon who was pardoned by President Bill Clinton in 2000; of pulmonary disease; in Nashville, Tenn. The pardon--Gregory had been convicted of bank fraud--prompted a congressional investigation into his financial ties with the President's brother-in-law Tony Rodham, who had received $240,000 in undocumented consulting fees from Gregory...
...ring, and many perfectly sensible policies are now strictly off limits for any Democrat who hopes to get elected—which is most of them. Desperate to dodge the “liberal” label, Kerry has been boxed into a corner (if you’ll pardon the mixed metaphor). And unless the Republican-imposed taboos can be broken, the country may soon be on the ropes...