Word: plea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...verse. When Juliana commands early on to "Get off of me!", it sounds pretty imposing. Suddenly, though, the song shifts gears; as the chorus approaches, the thrash elements melt away, leaving only a soaring, melodic vocal line that is not a command at all, but a poignant plea...
During the last days at Harvard before my leave of absence, I made a sincere plea that the inanity of the annual Mather House sophomore outing be replaced with a more meaningful day of community service that might bring the entire house together, in the process working against some of the clique-ish isolation that for me was nearly fatal. The Masters rejected the proposal, taking a stance that has come to typify the University reaction as a whole: rather than acknowledging a problem of far-ranging scope, Harvard prefers to insulate itself by writing off each death, each breakdown...
...Marv's plea was less an admission of wrong-doing than the last resort of a man who had been subjected to an unnecessary parade of humiliations. His accuser, a woman who previously had been convicted of harassing and threatening to kill an ex-boyfriend, was permitted to remain shielded in anonymity while the intimate details of Marv's personal life were plastered across the headlines. It is certainly a noble goal to protect the victims of sexual assault from mistreatment in the courtroom, but why should Marv's past conduct have been subject to the closest scrutiny, while Perhach...
Marv copped his plea bargain at a point in the trial when many legal experts felt he was on his way to acquittal. The defense had just presented evidence that Perhach had attempted to bribe a cab driver to get him to make damaging claims about Marv. The credibility of Marv's accuser was thus finally cast into appropriate doubt. When Marv finally did decide to throw in the towel, it came after a witness testified about a past sexual-encounter, during which she claimed he wore women's lingerie and a garter belt. Therefore, Marv's plea can accurately...
Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) delivered a last-minute plea for his campaign-finance legislation in a speech at the Kennedy School of Government last night...