Word: pardons
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Florida State has earned an exemption because its Seminoles nickname and mascot is endorsed by that selfsame local tribe; North Dakota’s Sioux have issued no such pardon. But an accurate threshold can not be express approval. What then of the Bears, a perennial Dartmouth opponent? Does Brown have the consent of our ursine friends? You think I’m kidding...
...least 12 specific cases of alleged secret detention and torture in Algeria have been reported to his group since 2002. In August, a British court ruling struck down challenges to such deportations on human rights grounds, citing Algeria's recently applied Charter For Peace and Reconciliation - which offers pardons to security force members and surrendered radicals responsible for violent crimes - as a guarantee of fair treatment for deportees. Amnesty mocks that decision and its application in the Doha case, given British officials' own description of Doha as an active security threat rather than the repentant jihadist that Algiers might pardon...
...Some rooms in MoMA, pardon my criticism...are an accumulation, not a collection,” Buchloh said...
...listeners as "our friends-I mean, our enemies" and off-air efforts to aid American POWs, she made clear her loyalty to the U.S. But in 1949, with testimony from witnesses who later said they were coerced, she was convicted of treason and jailed for six years. Her 1977 pardon by President Gerald Ford was, she said, a "vindication...
...that anger that was preventing me from savoring the achievement of a lifetime: saving my own skin and that of three others. My failure to get rid of the grenade before it exploded was only the first in a long list of wrongs I would have to pardon before I could finally put the ordeal behind...