Word: pardons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beating closet queen to affectionate husband, from Velvet Underground frontman to the man on the Honda scooter who won't settle for just walking. And he's had to watch his various lives fold and unfold in the public eye to varying degrees of interest. But worse than that, pardon the melodrama, probably hardly a day goes by for Lou Reed that he doesn't have to live with being a survivor. A survivor in the rock and roll sense of the word...
...sheep and not even giving drivers the chance to speed and get caught fairly, driving cars which don't let on that they have police inside, and hiding like a Viet Cong inside an unmarked truck violate all the rules of the speeding game. Sleazy tactics like those are--pardon the pun--cop-outs...
...case arose in 1979 when the Nation obtained a copy of Ford's manuscript from an undisclosed source and quickly put together a summary of 2,250 words, 300 of which were direct quotations. The chosen quotes featured the ex- President's defense of his pardon of Richard Nixon, and Nation Editor Victor Navasky argued that Ford's own words on the pardon and other subjects were "hot news." The book's publishers, Harper & Row and Reader's Digest, sued, charging that Navasky had violated the copyright laws and stolen former President Ford's right to determine the time...
...Thompson announced that he still believed Webb had been raped and Dotson properly convicted. He was commuting the sentence, said Thompson, because it left a "cloud over the Illinois justice system," and because Dotson had served enough time for the crime. The Governor's failure to give Dotson a pardon, which would have cleared his record of the charges, means that in the law's eyes he is still guilty. Dotson, therefore, is appealing for a new trial...
...speech and movement at the University, which those involved in the Lowell House blockade clearly did not allow South African diplomat Abe Hopenstein. In addition, the committee was created as a special body to hear more complicated cases in which political dissent may constitute a reasonable extenuating circumstance to pardon conduct that the Administrative Board--the College's traditional disciplinary body--normally would punish...