Word: plea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ames case, the government squeezed a guilty plea from him by promising to drop charges against his wife. It's not clear what comparable leverage it has against Nicholson, except to offer reduced charges in return for a confession. At present, prosecutors don't have enough evidence to seek the death penalty, but if convicted on the current charge, Nicholson still faces life in prison without parole. So silence, and the threat of taking his case to trial, may for now be Nicholson's greatest weapon. For the CIA, it also means a nightmare, as it wonders just what damage...
...postpartisan age, anyone who hopes to fix anything will have to swallow hard and reach out across the aisle to find the needed votes. So if Clinton learned a lesson about hubris, the Republicans face one about bitterness. Late last week a senior White House official quietly telephoned a plea to a top Gingrich adviser. The White House knew it would win, and on the assumption that the Congress would stay in Republican hands, the aide was angling for a favor in advance. When the polls close on Tuesday, he asked, might the Speaker and Senate majority leader Trent Lott...
...roof of the house. They weren't arrested, but disciplinary action of some sort is almost certain. Normally, we'd leave these heinous felons to the fate they so richly deserve, but given the arbitrary and harsh nature of College justice, we thought we'd write a plea on their behalf...
...Warm Gun. He does a Yokoized What's the New Mary Jane, a previously unreleased number with Lewis Carroll-like lyrics and avant-garde inventiveness. But there's also an urgent I'm So Tired, still one of Lennon's most potent songs--ennui, annoyance, panic and plea in two minutes flat. The mood of these sessions is serious fun. Songs tail into parody as the lads assume the IDs of sham bands: Ricky and the Red Streaks, or Los Paranoias ("Come on, enjoy...
SENTENCED. GIORGIO ARMANI, 62, fashion designer; to a 20-day suspended jail term under a plea bargain on charges involving an alleged $197,000 bribe to tax police; in Milan...