Word: pardons
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...example: "Pardon me, Yasser, but would you care to contribute to the United Jewish Appeal...
...went. Alas, the team could not follow him to his last destination. One would give much for a videotape of Hammer attempting to glad-hand St. Peter or seizing the elbow of Beelzebub, as he had so often grabbed Ronald Reagan's in the hope of a presidential pardon for Hammer's conviction for making illegal contributions to Richard Nixon's 1972 re- election campaign...
President Carlos Saul Menem wanted to "close a black chapter" in Argentina's history. But his decision last week to pardon ex-President Jorge Videla and half a dozen other leaders who had been jailed in 1986 for their role in Argentina's "dirty war" in the late 1970s only rekindled popular outrage. Nearly 50,000 citizens took to the streets of Buenos Aires to protest, and Bishop Jorge Novak called the measure a "humiliating defeat for the democratic system...
ANOTHER strange--pardon me, random--system of terminology at Harvard is the ever-growing "romantic encounter" slang. In a true melting-pot method, every student has brought a way of referring to the process of seduction from his or her high school. In a true Harvard semiotic (and pathetic) argument, the number of signifiers far outstrips the mystical signified object. (In other words, we have a lot of words for it, but it doesn't happen much...
...Washington last week at his reckoning. He has legal bills of more than $3 million, has seen four years of his life wasted, and now has been sentenced to six months in jail. Chances are slim for a successful appeal of his convictions for deceiving Congress. A presidential pardon is even more remote. Poindexter is the seventh person found guilty in this sad drama and the only one so far to be ordered to jail. He may keep that distinction...