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...Jenkins, 64, would like to settle in Japan, but the U.S. has said it wants to extradite him for prosecution. Koizumi has asked for leniency, if not a pardon. For the U.S., this diplomatic face-off comes at a bad time: it's not keen to alienate Japan, a key ally in the war on Iraq, but it also can't afford to appear soft on deserters. Jenkins' ill health may help: he reportedly suffers from abdominal surgery complications and is expected to head straight to a Japanese hospital. Reeling from the scandal over its abuse of prisoners in Iraq...
...open the door of pardon ... to anyone who deviated from the right path and committed a crime in the name of religion." CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH BIN ABDUL AZIZ AL SAUD of Saudi Arabia, offering a partial amnesty to Islamic militants who turn themselves in to the government in the wake of a rising number of terrorist attacks in the kingdom...
...candor in presidential memoirs and not received any credit for it. Of course, the sum of Clinton's presidency and memoirs is not the struggle against Starr. But the intensity of his feelings on that subject tends to put everything else--the substantive achievements and the embarrassments like the pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich--on the back burner. He spends very little time in the book discussing the intricacies of domestic issues like health care, welfare reform and even his triumphant economic policy. He spends more time on foreign affairs, especially the failed Middle East peace negotiations. Though...
...have to decide whether to pardon him. But not right away-- after the investigation, after the state gets more publicity." BILL RICHARDSON, New Mexico Governor, on pardoning notorious 19th century outlaw Billy...
...revisions. Lucky for Encores!, David Ives is its script doctor in residence. Ives, whose evening of short plays known as "All in the Timing" revealed a mad-genius mastery of sketch comedy, has pruned, edited, concertized a dozen Encores! shows. Here, though, he practically had to invent a script - "Pardon My English" wasn't so much revived as vived. So Ives pinwheels his ingenuity to make the audience conspirators in the play's structural silliness...