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...main source." In fact, Kelly came out relatively unscathed from his testimony. The M.P.s directed their hostility at his bosses, and never pressed him very hard. No one ever asked him to describe his encounter with Gilligan from start to finish. Yet many of his answers plead memory lapse or were oddly vague. When asked directly if anything he said to Gilligan could have been construed as implicating Campbell, Kelly said: "I find it very difficult to think back to a conversation I had six weeks ago." One official who knew him is sure Kelly was still trying to serve...
...help comparing Martha Stewart's declarations of innocence to charges of obstruction of justice and securities fraud [BUSINESS, June 16] with the reports that she might have been willing to accept a plea bargain if she could be guaranteed no jail time. What was she going to plead guilty to if not a crime? This is not just public relations. Stocks rise and fall on Stewart's public utterances. Would her plea of guilty in return for no jail time have been a lie? TONY ACCETTA New York City...
Tanaka said he and most of the others arrested planned to plead not guilty to their charges...
...summits last week also happened because of pressure from Arab leaders. A month after the President's speech, King Abdullah of Jordan and his Foreign Minister, Marwan Muasher, went to Washington to plead with Bush to follow up his words with a plan. Condoleezza Rice, the National Security Adviser, rejected the idea. But in the Oval Office, King Abdullah and Muasher appealed directly to the President. The parties needed a guide, Muasher told Bush, to reach the goals laid out in his speech. "Sounds like a good idea to me," Bush replied. Suddenly the road map was born...
Gomes and Pomey, the two students accused of embezzling over $100,000 from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, plead guilty to charges. The two students are later sentenced to five years of probation and dismissed from the College...