Word: plea
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Dabbing her eyes with a cloth and clutching a photograph of her son to her chest, Sonam Dekyi, the mother of Tibetan political prisoner Ngawang Choephel, gave an impassioned plea to Harvard students last night to put pressure on the Chinese government to free...
...June special election to let Republican HEATHER WILSON win the seat. Now there's a rematch, and Anderson may ruin the Democrats' chances again--so much so that Maloof has adopted much of the Greens' platform, and House minority leader RICHARD GEPHARDT asked Anderson to drop out, a plea that was rejected. Meanwhile, in the Third District, TOM UDALL, son of STEWART UDALL, appears to be winning back a seat lost to the G.O.P.'S BILL REDMOND in 1997's special election. But the Greens' CAROL MILLER, whose showing helped Redmond last time, could again damage the Dems. This prospect...
...office of the independent counsel has anything tantalizing left to deliver. But two weeks after his team dumped 18 boxes of evidence on the doorstep of Congress, Kenneth Starr quietly sent something else--a 44-word letter that has impeachment handicappers all over Capitol Hill buzzing. It is a plea to handle in confidence the investigative materials related to the President's alleged groping in the Oval Office of a volunteer and former Virginia campaign worker, Kathleen Willey. The letter was the first official indication from the independent counsel of what both Republicans and Democrats have been anticipating for weeks...
According to a court report read at the change of plea hearing by U.S. Attorney Donald K. Stern, the computer was shut down for two weeks in order to repair the damage caused by the hacker...
...reminded again and again of the amazing quality and ability of Crow's voice. Her vocal cords get quite a work-out, as she sings in multiple "voices" ranging from a throaty cry ("It Don't Hurt") to a light country twang ("Riverwide") to a low, seductive plea ("Anything But Down"), all the time maintaining an intriguing audibility. Once in a while, though, that unpleasant and annoying wail of hers manages to sneak its way in, but it is once in a great while on this...