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...time expires on the second period, a scrum develops along the boards. Donato stares intently, wary of injury—or perhaps watching for penalties. Again, Murphy calls for coincidental minors. Donato waits at the bench to plead his case, but Murphy has no interest. After giving directions to MacDonald, Donato strides off the ice, glancing up at the Coca-Cola scoreboard and shaking his head at the unfavorable shot count...
...love my wife," he tells the crowd as he begins. "I plead guilty - especially today, which is my daughter's 28th birthday and the happiest day of my life." He follows with a long, detailed description of how Hillary Clinton has worked for change - as a law student, at the Children's Defense Fund, as First Lady of Arkansas, in the White House and the Senate. "She is the best candidate for President I've ever had a chance to support," Clinton says. A list follows: She supported Senegalese women victimized by genital multilation; she inspired Cambodian women to work...
After two trials and nearly five years, Alexander Pring-Wilson has plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter and has been sentenced to two years and one day in prison...
...reason to doubt the Maoists' commitment to democracy, although the other parties have now sought to accommodate that demand by agreeing that the monarchy will be abolished once a Constituent Assembly is elected. For their part, the Maoists, who proclaim themselves the true champions of democracy in Nepal, plead for patience as they move their "people's revolution" out of the jungle...
...hockey beat writer, but I am not a hypocrite. I’m not going to plead with the student body to choose Harvard-Cornell over Harvard-Yale, especially when I, like everybody else, will be halfway to New Haven by the time the puck drops at the Bright. Harvard isn’t a national athletic powerhouse in most major sports, but there’s no game anywhere quite like Harvard-Yale, especially not this year, and there’s no way you can miss...