Word: pleaded
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...Council. Gun was going to plead in defense that her leak was necessary to stop casualties in a war - and try to put the shaky legal case for war on trial with her. Prosecutors calculated they couldn't persuade every member of a jury that her leak wasn't an act of conscience they should excuse - and now the government must review its obviously ineffective Official Secrets Act, whose draconian provisions against divulging classified information are not doing much good. As investigations proceed on both sides of the Atlantic about intelligence that was faulty and perhaps deliberately skewed, both European...
...River will win the Screenplay awards, and that Finding Nemo will easily win Best Animated Film; Best Documentary’s a head-scratcher for me, but I’m rooting for The Fog of War, political junkie that I am. As for the third-tier races, I plead guilty to not caring about them...
According to Tanaka, the judge at first said he would be willing to reduce his sentence if Tanaka would plead guilty...
Remember when being charged with child molestation was a bad thing? In a spectacle that even hardened TV-news commentators described as a freak show, pop star MICHAEL JACKSON appeared in a Santa Maria, Calif., court to plead not guilty to seven counts of lewd acts with a child and two counts of giving intoxicants to a child. Outside, hundreds of fans--some of whom arrived on buses chartered by Jacko's camp--screamed their support while Jackson's bodyguards handed out invitations to the star's Neverland Ranch for postarraignment festivities. Later, Jackson climbed onto the roof...
...eyes of an orphan too proud to plead, too desperate to reproach. She is poor, female and 12, and in mid-'90s Afghanistan, with the Taliban thug clerics in power, that means no schooling, employment or respect. Then her mother has an idea. Cut the girl's hair, dress her in robes and give her a boy's name--Osama--so she can find work as a "boy" and support the tattered family...