Word: plea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a tendency to deal with the deep problems of poverty and homelessness by pushing them away, out of sight and out of mind. I say with some confidence that every single person reading this editorial, at one time or another, has responded to a beggar's plea with a feeling of resentment. "Why are they bothering me today? Why can't they just leave me alone...
...Plea for Service...
...SIMPSON IS A FREE MAN TODAY, he leaves behind a machinery of law that looks as twisted as any Los Angeles freeway after an earthquake. Critics of his acquittal point to issues that took the trial where it had no business going, from the defense plea for racial reparations to breathless news bulletins on Marcia Clark's hairdo. Yet even within the strict letter of the law, the case unfolded with such grotesque distortions of what most Americans think of as normal justice that the system itself ended up in the dock. Verdicts are now coming down, and they...
...University of California, Berkeley. "It's still not quite akin to, 'Here's a fingerprint--how can you possibly contest it?' but it's way different than it was 12 months ago." Already overburdened courts are bracing for the prospect of more criminal defendants who refuse to cop a plea, opting instead for an O.J. dash for daylight before a jury. Potential jurors may be loath to perform a duty that in the Simpson case proved to be a kind of medieval torture...
...Pope cautioned Americans about their responsibility to welcome immigrants from faraway lands, to aid the poor and to feed the hungry. In so doing, the Pope did more than make a plea for social justice. He reminded us all that religion, far from being hostile to social reform, can serve as the catalyst for social reform...