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...that when a car isn't coming apart, the energy isn't dissipating. The sheet metal in these cars is designed to shred and fly away so that a driver isn't crushed or sliced. Earnhardt's car was still more or less intact. "Talk to us, Dale!" The plea from the pit crackled in the earphones of a driver--a champion, a legend--who was, in all probability, already dead...
Clinton speaks by phone with Barak, who makes a final plea for Rich...
...plea of innocence, de Klerk invoked the name of God to reinforce his claim: "I have a clear conscience with my God." However, it appears that the god of the apartheid government and the god of those that were oppressed by apartheid is as different as Blacks were from Whites in the old South Africa...
...College's policy on alcohol can be summed up as a simple plea from the administration: "Please don't die on us." Administrators, including Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, stress that the main goal of the College's alcohol policy--consistent with state and federal laws--is to keep students from drinking themselves to death. One of the most effective rules the College has to ensure no one forgoes medical attention after drinking too much is the promise that students will suffer no disciplinary action if they go to Stillman Infirmary at University Health Services...
...Israeli officials first approached the Justice Department and were told the plan conflicted with prosecutorial goals. But, the memo says, DOJ would give "serious consideration" to the plea if the White House or State Department identified a U.S. interest "in allowing Israel to obtain the active participation of Rich in a Middle East initiative." Rich's representatives saw this as an opening to find a "sponsor" in the administration who believed "a greater cause would be served by finding a solution to the Marc Rich problem," according to the memo...