Word: plea
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Faced with mounting financial troubles, Harvard Hillel recently sent a plea to many parents and grandparents asking for donations in an attempt to raise $75,000 by today for Hillel’s kosher dining hall. The letter, sent on June 6 by Judy Z. Herbstman ’07, the president of Hillel’s undergraduate steering committee, went out to all parents and grandparents in Hillel’s database, including both Jews and non-Jews. While adjustments will be necessary in order to cut costs if Hillel does not reach its goal of raising...
...anything was missing. According to Harvard College Library (HCL) Director of Communications Beth Brainard, Houghton Library discovered that 13 maps were missing from their collection. Of those 13 maps, Smiley has admitted to stealing eight, including a map of the new world by Hernan Cortes from 1524. With his plea deal, Smiley has agreed to serve a five-year prison sentence, according to the New York Times, though he faces up to 10 years imprisonment. He also faces fines of over $1,600,000, and has agreed to pay restitution to dealers and individuals affected by his thefts. The maps...
Faced with mounting financial troubles, Harvard Hillel recently sent a plea to many parents and grandparents asking for donations in an attempt to raise $75,000 by June 30 for Hillel’s kosher dining hall...
...nine rural churches in Alabama will most likely never go to trial, sources in the case tell TIME. Judge John E. Ott announced Monday that their trial date has been moved from June to November - a delay, according to the sources, that is the result of infighting over a plea agreement among federal prosecutors, the Alabama state attorney and three county prosecutors. The issue: where the trio will serve their jail time...
...plea bargain is reached, however, a lot of Alabamans may feel cheated. After their arrest, Cloyd, DeBusk and Moseley said they had set the first of five fires as a spontaneous joke, then followed it with four more fires intended as cover. Without a trial, all the details of their crimes - and how much planning went into them - may never be known...