Word: pardons
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Sluggers like McGwire--batters who swing for the fences four times a day and damn the torpedoes--are, pardon the iconoclasm, a dime a dozen. Second-rate ballplayers like Dave Kingman, George Foster and Cecil Fielder have put up roughly comparable numbers with exponentially less hoopla...
...would certainly represent closure to the Lewinsky case, but it wouldn't also mean justice had been done--particularly if Starr's report to Congress were to contain persuasive evidence of crimes. When Richard Nixon resigned over Watergate, that was closure too, it can be argued--but his pardon by Gerald Ford was viewed by many, even to this day, as an unsatisfactory moral ending...
...Pardon me then when I was disturbed to learn that one of Peoria's most famous and accepted social institutions is a strip club. Big Al's, a "world-famous gentleman's club" located in the middle of downtown, features "the world's most beautiful women," fine cigars, cognac, a lunchtime buffet and Wednesday night wet T-shirt contests...
...Pardon my bias, but isn't getting naked to make a little money just a bit degrading...
...informed of this by the DEA officials who showed up on her doorstep moments after her call to police. The agents were actually going to arrest her, but were stymied because she had already reported the package. Hearst believes the incident has something to do with the presidential pardon she's seeking...