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...year-old girl and also charged with the rape of a 17-year-old girl at an Atlanta motel. Four of Wilson's co-defendants accepted plea offers and avoided trial, and a fifth accepted a deal the morning of the trial's opening day. Wilson, however, refused to plead guilty and was tried on the two charges...
...allows us to go to lectures by leading scholars of their fields, if we are so inclined. But there is so much more that a Harvard student can do with the magical term bill. You can get anything you want by charging your parents behind their back. Some fools plead their parents to add money to their Crimson Cash accounts, but the truly savvy head over to the Law School, where you can term-bill all the Crimson Cash you desire. Then you are home free, with your parents paying for everything from pizza at Bertucci?...
...judge was concerned that the stipulation amounted to a confession by Watada to an offense to which he intended to plead not guilty," said Fort Lewis spokesman Joseph Piek. It was unclear why it had taken the judge three days to come to this conclusion concerning a document that was a pillar of the prosecution's case, but it was nevertheless devastating to the military prosecutors, who had rested their case the previous...
...government is allowed to plead that reasons of national security excuse it from its obligations, any international consensus on bribery would quickly disappear. "What happened with the U.K. - that a country has to explain itself and justify what it is doing internally - would have been impossible some years back," says Mark Pieth, a Swiss law professor who chairs the o.e.c.d. working group. Pieth says he wants Britain to have a fair hearing, but he worries that, if there has been a breach, the convention itself would be "squarely at risk...
...Over the next two weeks, dubious e-mails claiming to be from notable administrators and faculty will plead with us to take time away from Facebook.com to fill out our CUE evaluations. With luck, most of us will oblige. But when it comes to getting the most out of the feedback we submit each semester, the CUE has ample room for improvement...