Word: plea
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Increasing debate has surrounded feminism and the experience of undergraduate women following rape allegations against Joshua K. Elster '00 last spring and his guilty plea this fall. Questions about the future of Radcliffe have also been a focal point for contention...
...address the following to those who seek to improve the world. (How maddeningly absurd it is to imagine that I might have lost even one reader just now!) Today I want to express an impassioned plea for each of us to ask ourselves the following questions and to confront our answers earnestly: What would it take for me to unearth, scrutinize and grapple with my deepest motives in life? To reconsider those motives with the most sincere and penetrating will to critique and better myself? To emerge from this introspection with a more enlightened sense of what drives...
Dabbing her eyes with a cloth and clutching a photograph of her son to her chest, Sonam Dekyi, the mother of Tibetan political prisoner Ngawang Choephel, gave an impassioned plea to Harvard students last night to put pressure on the Chinese government to free...
...June special election to let Republican HEATHER WILSON win the seat. Now there's a rematch, and Anderson may ruin the Democrats' chances again--so much so that Maloof has adopted much of the Greens' platform, and House minority leader RICHARD GEPHARDT asked Anderson to drop out, a plea that was rejected. Meanwhile, in the Third District, TOM UDALL, son of STEWART UDALL, appears to be winning back a seat lost to the G.O.P.'S BILL REDMOND in 1997's special election. But the Greens' CAROL MILLER, whose showing helped Redmond last time, could again damage the Dems. This prospect...
...office of the independent counsel has anything tantalizing left to deliver. But two weeks after his team dumped 18 boxes of evidence on the doorstep of Congress, Kenneth Starr quietly sent something else--a 44-word letter that has impeachment handicappers all over Capitol Hill buzzing. It is a plea to handle in confidence the investigative materials related to the President's alleged groping in the Oval Office of a volunteer and former Virginia campaign worker, Kathleen Willey. The letter was the first official indication from the independent counsel of what both Republicans and Democrats have been anticipating for weeks...