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...Washington Pardon...
...impeachment and perhaps the most rigorous test of Holder's career. Nearly 11 years later, he is reported to be President-elect Barack Obama's first choice for Attorney General. Transition aides, and much Washington speculation, have focused on Holder's brief part in Clinton's controversial last-minute pardon of fugitive tycoon Marc Rich as a potential snare in confirmation hearings. But the behind-the-scenes role Holder played in the Monica Lewinsky probe - a 10-month Justice Department ordeal - offers a much fuller record to scrutinize. And like everything else with that polarizing scandal, Holder's shifting positions...
...national media gets no pardon either. "Reporters facilitate the greedy and grubby process whereby too many elections go to the highest bidder and his sharpie hirelings," he writes. He remains sore about the degree to which a candidate's credibility is judged by his or her bank account and notes that during the debates, he was often asked about religion while the other candidates dealt with questions of government policy. Why, he asks, was a "floating cross" in the window of one of his ads such a media controversy when reporters gave a pass to a Barack Obama direct-mail...
...rignon to mint juleps and influencing a whole generation of fans on what's hip to sip. "Instead of an action hero chugging a beer or pounding down a shot, it's clear that Ian Fleming started this franchise with a real sense of taste - if you'll pardon the pun - for fine living and nice drinks," says Tom Sisson, director of the New York Bartending School. "People notice what Bond orders." (TIME travels to London to learn how to make the perfect Vesper Martini...
...Moore-Bosko, the wife of a U.S. Navy man, in Norfolk, Va. After their conviction, however, they said their confessions were coerced and false. Now 26 former FBI agents have released the text of a letter they wrote in July asking Virginia governor Tim Kaine to grant a full pardon to the so-called Norfolk Four, calling the convictions a "tragic mistake...