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...anticommunist freedom fighter before becoming internationally isolated after refusing to accept the results of the country's first-ever elections in 1992 and then rejecting three subsequent peace accords, ensuring the continuation of the country's bloody civil war which has claimed more than half a million lives. DENIED PARDON. LORI BERENSON, 32, the American radical convicted in June 2001 of collaborating with Peruvian Marxist guerrillas and sentenced to 20 years in prison, by Peru's Supreme Court; in Lima. Berenson's parents appealed to the Peruvian President for amnesty for their daughter during last year's retrial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...status as the only leader who can heal the bitter wounds caused by his downfall - not to mention the many questions hanging over his convictions - to make a comeback. One scenario being discussed in Kuala Lumpur sees his supporters in the ruling political party arranging for a royal pardon, allowing Anwar to pick up Mahathir's mantle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Countries Looking for Fresh Leadership | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

...convict Navy captain and military journalist Grigory Pasko on treason charges. Pasko had leaked information to the press about nuclear-waste dumping in the Russian far east. Putin denied any involvement in the case: it was, he said, a "purely juridical affair" and invited Pasko to request a pardon. This was easier said than done, as a few days after the Pasko verdict the President abolished his pardons commission, founded by Mikhail Gorbachev and composed of unreconstructed civil libertarians hopelessly out of touch with the Putin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And That's All, Folks | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

...Pardon me? Bill Clinton sure saved the worst for last by pardoning Marc Rich, a fugitive commodities trader who, in 1983, skipped out on 51 counts of tax evasion and racketeering, which included trading with Iran during the hostage crisis. Given the $1 million-plus that Rich's ex-wife donated to a certain Arkansan's presidential library, it will now be able to afford some 40,000 copies of the former President's autobiography, due out next year

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scandals | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...corporate market is merely a prelude to the battle to come. "The consumer market is where the big money is," says Michael Schmertzler, a Credit Suisse First Boston managing director and, with Doerr, Segway's other major financial backer. "But this is about more than money for Dean. Pardon the cliche, but he really does want to change the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reinventing The Wheel | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

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