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Wachtler's lawyer is hoping to work out a plea that will keep his client out of jail. Looking back on his career, Wachtler once observed that it took about three years for a politician to become a real jurist. "Only then," he said, "do you stop thinking every Election Day about what might have been." It's a thought that will probably haunt him again...
This column shouldn't be misinterpreted as a crunchy plea for everyone just to hold hands. Go ahead, Harvard and Yale students, roast each other until your heart is content...
...presidential candidates, politics resumed the ancient rhythms of the horse race and the cockfight. Women's issues, such as domestic violence, never came up in the presidential campaign, and when abortion did intrude into the vice-presidential debate, Admiral Stockdale undercut his own pro-choice statement with a grumpy plea to "get on past this and talk about something substantive...
...case. By this time Drogoul had a flamboyant new Georgia attorney named Bobby Lee Cook, who argued that the banker was an innocent pawn of Rome and Washington. An investigation by an Italian parliamentary committee leaned toward the same conclusion. Shoob thus allowed the Justice Department to cancel its plea-bargain agreement with Drogoul. But U.S. prosecutors still believe they were right. Says Brill: "((Drogoul)) had confessed to the crime over and over again. It was only when Bobby Lee Cook came in that he denied he was guilty...
...MUSIC A plea for love suffuses Peter Gabriel's new album...