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...More than a dozen of Fletcher's aides were indicted last year on charges that they helped orchestrate a hiring scheme for low-level state jobs based on political support. Fletcher was criticized from all sides when he issued a blanket pardon covering every member of his administration, save himself, for actions related to the indictments. But outright challenges to his leadership did not materialize until this summer, following his own indictment in May in connection with the case...
...pardon my suspicion of religion, Mr. Obama. This dragon cannot be tamed...
...Years between the 1706 conviction of Grace Sherwood for witchcraft and her pardon last week by Virginia Governor Tim Kaine...
...Retrospect January 30, 1956 After four years of swimming in a national goldfish bowl, it is easy for the casual undergraduate to grow as indifferent to the changes within his Cambridge world as to development without. Perhaps, therefore, our readers will pardon the Crimson editors’ annual urge to review the past year’s developments before they depart from their notepad pinnacle for more academic file cards. Our only conclusion at such close range can be that it has been a good year for historians and for sorcerers, and that it has been a year of expansion...
...incredible talent for integrating celebrity names into sentences.” 2. “Outside” by Staind “This song was extremely overplayed. Pretty good, but kind of depressing. This is from the angsty teenage years.” 3. “Pardon Me” by Incubus “Probably the first good rock song that I liked. It was back in seventh grade.” 4. “Wake Up” by Rage Against the Machine “Zack de la Rocha?...