Word: plea
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...divorce court, naturally, does not look kindly upon unemployed flakes; it refuses Daniel's plea for joint custody and places limits on his visitation rights that are unbearable to the best daddy in Christendom. The world does not look kindly on working moms, and Miranda cannot find a suitable nanny to tend the kids while she pursues her high-powered career in interior design. Thus, out of mutual need, but without Miranda's conscious participation, Mrs. Doubtfire -- that is to say, Daniel in old-lady drag and affecting a Scots accent -- is born. In this role, Daniel not only brings...
Because tolerance is practical. After the ethnic ugliness of the Los Angeles riots last spring, Rodney King made a moving call for tolerance by asking, "Can't we all get along?" His plea sums up the pragmatic argument for tolerance, which goes something like this: Diversity in America is becoming more and more of an intractable fact. In a just a few decades, after all, whites will be outnumbered by people of color. And if California is any indicator, people from starkly different backgrounds will sooner or later find themselves living next door to each other, sending their kids...
Unless Lorena strikes a plea bargain, prosecutors, who relied on her testimony in trying John, will have to cast him as a star witness to try to convict Lorena. Ironically, pros ecutor Paul Ebert's failure to convict John will make this easier, since it weakens her claim that her act was justified. Dur ing his closing argument last week, Ebert signaled that he could parcel out his disdain with an even hand: "You might say perhaps that these two people deserve each other...
...performance all the more extraordinary when one realizes that Wadham is given none of the clever lines or emotional speeches that the other characters receive. The only thing Pitt is passionate about is cutting waste--at times he almost sounds like Al Gore in his plea for efficiency. Yet Pitt, for all his faults, is one of the more sympathetic characters in the play. Incessantly goaded about his loss of America and his father's own descent into madness, Pitt retreats further and further into himself, carrying the audience with him. When George III returns to sanity, the corresponding success...
Their critics say that the Concord group's proposed cuts for retirees violate the trust of people who paid into Social Security and Medicare for years. The Concord argument rests strongly on a moral plea of its own: older Americans should not burden their children and grandchildren with the task of paying off the debt. Peterson likes to quote Thomas Jefferson's observation to James Madison that passing on debt to future generations is "swindling futurity." Is it possible to make seniors sit still for such talk? Perhaps it is. The sky didn't fall when Congress approved the Clinton...