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Some opponents of immigration reform argue that to grant Balderas pardon would be to condone an illegal act, regardless of his academic standing. Yet others have come to the student's defense, emphasizing his strong identification as an American and his outstanding academic history...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: VIDEO: Detained Harvard Student Speaks Out | 6/14/2010 | See Source »

...meat of the class—if you’ll pardon the pun—is really to practice applying all the skills we are learning,” explained Wong...

Author: By Nora A. Tufano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Marinating in Knowledge with HUDS | 4/15/2010 | See Source »

...hand, the Attorney General is appointed by the President; on the other, he must remain politically independent of the White House. Holder, who as Deputy Attorney General a decade ago approved both the expansion of Ken Starr's investigation of Bill Clinton and Clinton's disastrous pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich, needs no lesson on the pitfalls of his position. But Holder enjoys a personal relationship with Obama that he never had with Clinton - and that makes the job harder, not easier. It may also help him keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eric Holder's Trials and Tribulations | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...Well, pardon my saying so, but I don't want them. I don't want to pay less. If anything, I'd rather pay a little more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Big Shopping Bargains Are Bad News For America | 11/27/2009 | See Source »

...writer of high seriousness, who died Oct. 18 at 89. A Briton of aristocratic lineage, Kennedy was an advocate of foxhunting and showed something of that merciless instinct in his investigative journalism, which he devoted to exposing miscarriages of justice. His book 10 Rillington Place inspired the posthumous pardon of Timothy Evans, a young Englishman wrongly executed for murder in 1950, and hastened Britain's abolition of the death penalty. The Airman and the Carpenter, Kennedy's exploration of the kidnapping and killing of aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby, failed to achieve a similar result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ludovic Kennedy | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

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