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...paper, he also made belittling comments about U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, landing himself in the middle of an embarrassing international press frenzy. Addressing Sarkozy's remarks, Royal said on April 18 that she'd written to friend and fellow Socialist Zapatero begging his pardon for the slight, and stressing that "those statements represent neither France nor the French people". (Read "Sarkozy: Obama 'Weak, Inexperienced and Badly Briefed...
While the Obama Administration cannot reverse the charges against Lynch, St. Pierre says it has great latitude over his sentencing. (State prosecutors have recommended the minimum mandatory sentence of five years in federal prison.) "They could commute his sentence. They can pardon his sentence," says St. Pierre. "That will be very demonstrative as to what this new Administration will do about medical marijuana. They can influence it. They can dial back what had been overt federal opposition to medical marijuana and allow, as they should have from the beginning, local mores and values to dictate who is going...
...baffled me, but I took direct offense at the insinuations of a recent op-ed on the subject. Shauna Shames ’01 claims that Women’s Week “helps women to feel like they are equal citizens of this college.” Pardon? I am an equal citizen, and I need no assistance in being made to “feel like” one. In fact, that statement, along with the article’s emphasis on “women’s issues,” made me feel less...
...merit a full pardon, it's fine to break out the bubbly. But if you drink too much champagne and start a barroom brawl? Indulgence revoked, and you're back to square one. How's that for an incentive to keep doing good works...
Cheney, Dick • refusal of Bush to pardon goofily nicknamed underling of evokes huge furiousness in • refusal of to just shut up already annoys David Axelrod...