Word: plea
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...Ashton Kutcher (aplusk): I plea to the public to refuse to consume media that does not respect the anonymity of Michaels children
...plea, then, to Harvard’s splendid new graduating class of 2009. When you leave the university, be wary of seductive ideas not sufficiently vetted by academic scholarship. When endorsement by academic specialists is missing, there are usually good reasons. Also, think globally, not just locally, before you embrace a fashionable new choice. The non-academic purveyors of fashion seldom do. Robert Paarlberg is Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and a Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of “Starved for Science: How Biotechnology is Being Kept Out of Africa...
...Arlen Specter switched sides in April, Democrats have controlled 59 seats in the Senate. One more would give them a theoretically filibuster-proof majority - a possibility that has helped both sides raise money in recent weeks. "The stakes have never been this high," Coleman wrote in his last fundraising plea. "Our ability to overturn this flawed recount process - and preserve checks and balances against the near total control of our government by Obama and the Democrats - rests in your hands." Likewise, the liberal group MoveOn.org in April started a "Dollar a Day to Make Norm Go Away" fund...
...Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese novelist, and Sofia, Queen of Spain, had interceded on Susi's behalf. For her part, the Queen, who has long championed animal rights and is herself a vegetarian, forwarded the organizations' letter to the city government, urging them to consider it. Saramago wrote a plea on his blog to the city of Barcelona that Susi be given a "dignified" life, and describing the pachyderm as "dying of sorrow." (See pictures of the elephants of Asia...
...potential file downloaders and not just to redress its damages, giving its lawsuits an extra objective not allowed by the rules of civil procedure. The strategy—a challenge to the very constitutionality of the laws behind the recording industry’s case rather than a plea of innocence or a simple settlement out of court—was a fresh...