Word: pleaded
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...Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, not Vice President Dick Cheney, leaked the undercover identity of Valerie Plame. If Cheney was innocent the entire time, why did Libby have to lie to protect him? Could something even more damaging emerge upon further investigation? With a commuted sentence, Libby can plead the Fifth Amendment in future testimony. With a pardon, he could not. This whole affair smells. The Bush Administration has taken politics from the gutter into the sewers. Stephen H. Weentland, HOUSTON...
...Easy Commute," Richard Lacayo suggested that President George W. Bush commuted the sentence of I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, a member of the Bush inner circle, because Bush had nothing to lose [July 16]. But there could be a more sinister reason. With a commuted sentence, Libby can plead the Fifth Amendment in future testimony. This whole affair smells. The Bush Administration has taken politics from the gutter into the sewers...
...determine just what they are. One person's verdant grassland might be another's development site; where you see a mountain range, someone else might see a coal vein. Sorting out such matters can become impossible - especially when the debates take place across borders, as preservationists in one country plead with another not to burn a grassland or dam a river or tear down a thousand-year-old temple...
Dingell's victory in a special election was the first of 27 consecutive blowouts (some, he insists, harder than others). Unlike his father, Big John was physically imposing, and he filled his office walls with hunting trophies; visitors plead their cases under the cold gaze of Dingell kills. He honored his father by pushing for national health insurance and was chosen in 1965 to wield the gavel when the House passed Medicare...
...order tough guy Nicolas Sarkozy would spark riots among the nation's disaffected have been realized - hundreds of hooded youths in cities across France have battled police nightly since the poll, smashing windows and torching cars as leaders from across the political spectrum vigorously denounce the violence and plead for calm. But this is hardly a reprise of the 2005 riots that swept France's blighted suburban housing projects: The current bedlam is taking place at the center of some of France's largest cities, and the participants are mostly white, educated and relatively comfortable middle class adherents of extreme...