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...President Bush is not expected to look favorably on Lindh's latest plea for leniency - his third since striking a deal in 2002 with the Justice Department in which he agreed to plead guilty to serving as an armed member of the Taliban in exchange for avoiding a variety of other terrorism charges that had also been lodged against...
...strangest event so far in the U.S. attorney-firing mess may be the decision by a Justice Department lawyer to plead the Fifth rather than risk incriminating herself in testimony before Congress Thursday...
...charges against her, no matter what she says under oath. Her lawyer's letter alludes to this by mentioning that some members have already decided they were lied to by Bush Administration officials, and plan to "use the hearings to promote [their] political party." As a reason to plead the Fifth, though, "That's a new one," says Kerr. "I don't think I've ever come across that one before...
...criminal interpretations of the tax code are hazy." And if a crime occurred, "you need to know who up the line had responsibility," he says, "and that is extraordinarily difficult to determine in the context of a large corporation." Especially in a criminal case, in which witnesses can plead the Fifth rather than incriminate themselves with explanations...
...These factoids have long been available to students on the UHS Web site and through laundry room pamphlets with superbly campy photos. No doubt, every call from home includes some sort of parental plead to “get more sleep.” So why don’t we balance our lives around something so obviously important? The pervasive problems of chronic fatigue at Harvard are perpetuated by a student culture that dismisses and denigrates sleep...