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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...promise. Yet when the critical vote counting starts, he may not be around to deliver. Last week it was widely leaked that his lawyer, Robert Bennett, had met with prosecutors in the chairman's long-running criminal case and suggested that the Congressman might be willing to plead guilty to a misdemeanor. If that proposition were rebuffed, the accounts went, U.S. Attorney Eric Holder would probably request a felony indictment of Rostenkowski by Memorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chairman: No Easy Way Out? | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

Rivers was roundly criticized four years agoafter he helped get Michael Finkley, who wouldlater plead guilty to murder, into Boston College

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Combative Minister Draws Real Fire | 5/25/1994 | See Source »

...night (epiphany not too long ago, was it?) i reconciled the false world-historical contradiction between ethics and aesthetics. (irony: the resurgent dawn of nihilism.) I probably should've written it down, but i plead 'catnap': coerion by my spiteful and neglected excuse for a body: the revenge of R.E.M. Or was that a dream? Is not this a dream? Of course, isn't 'sleep' still a prerequiste for 'dreams...

Author: By Brad EDWARD White, | Title: ?...! & !...? | 5/18/1994 | See Source »

...Hogue plead guilty to one count of larcenygreater than $250 and was sentenced to serve threeto five years in the Cedar Junction prison inWalpole, Mass. Hogue is scheduled to be paroled inone year, with the rest of the sentence suspended...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Jewel Thief Sentenced For Parole Violation | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

...appeal is not Walsh's only way to avoidjail time. The convicted councillor may plead fora non-jail punishment so that he can take care ofhis aging mother, with whom he still lives.Walsh's mother attended the entire trial and brokedown in tears when she found out her son was afelon...

Author: By Terry H. Lanson, | Title: Guilty Walsh Defies Calls for Resignation | 4/6/1994 | See Source »

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