Word: pardons
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...maintain a façade of standing for something great, yet we do little enough to ensure that no sacrifice is needed—especially, it seems, if it might infringe on a thriving social life. But lacking mature resolve to do what is morally right is not a pardon; it is pathetic.I am able to come down on the “right” side of the debate at the dinner table, yet I still reap the benefits of the “wrong” on the weekends. And at the end of the night, I feel...
Although I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby pleaded not guilty in the CIA leak scandal last week--and brought on a legal team that specializes in winning high-profile public-integrity cases--the talk in Washington is already whether George W. Bush might pardon the Vice President's former chief of staff if he is convicted of perjury, obstruction of justice or other charges. Republicans involved in the case say the scenario most conducive to a pardon would be a guilty plea by Libby to head off a messy trial in which Dick Cheney's testimony might be sought...
...White House, which ordered aides with security clearances to attend hourlong "refresher lectures" on ethics this week, says no such discussions have begun. But people who know Bush well tell TIME that he may follow the example of previous Presidents who have used the end of their terms to pardon loyalists who ran afoul of the law while doing political battle. Meanwhile, Bush's appetite for pardons is growing: after granting none in 2001 and 2002, he approved four in 2003, 22 in 2004 and 29 this year. And Libby, a lawyer, knows the ropes. He called his client, fugitive...
...there was a fire in my house," O'Brien says, "I'd get my wife and child out, and then I'd run back in and get a Lincoln signature that I own--a pardon that he signed. I think I look at it every day." Asked why, he pauses for a second. "He's become such an otherworldly figure, such an iconic figure. But the fact is, he's a person. I guess it's inspiring to me that people are capable of being that cool...
...sure, there were times when Lincoln lost his temper, but then he would promptly follow up with a kind gesture. "I was a little cross," he wrote one of his generals, "I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up." By such gestures, repeated again and again, he repaired injured feelings that might have escalated into lasting animosity...