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...tumble of growls and bellows. "This is monkey talk," he says. The tax cuts the Republican promises will sap the Social Security trust fund. "They're raidin' the bloomin' fund," he blurts. Later Hollings swats away another of his opponent's carefully articulated responses, leaving the Congressman to plead, "I wish the Senator wouldn't belittle my ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pork on the Griddle | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...them sometimes," said student school committee member Rebecca Wheeler. "I've had to stay home four times already this year--twice to take care of my younger brother when he was sick. Under this policy, if I'm absent again I would have to go before a committee to plead my case to keep my academic credit...

Author: By Caitlin E. Anderson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Attendance Policy Angers Students | 10/7/1998 | See Source »

According to O'Reilly, often sex offenders likeElster first plead innocent because they cannotadmit their crimes but later decide to professtheir guilt in return for lighter sentences whenthe prospect of jail looms closer...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Elster Pleads Guilty To Rape; No Jail Time | 9/11/1998 | See Source »

...youthful reformist ministers. The government was to try again to pass a long-delayed reform package at week's end in a special session of the Duma. Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko has had no more luck than his predecessors in budging the Duma, but now he can plead that this is a genuine crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Yeltsin's Desperate Gamble | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...would Clinton want to plead not guilty by reason of addiction? Doubtful: it concedes too much. Which leaves this scenario: Bill and Hillary Clinton sit down with Barbara Walters in the White House family quarters. Barbara is empowered to hear confessions and grant absolution--the priestess of high colonics for the troubled celebrity mind. Her sacramental touch, her extreme unctuousness, is the very thing to preside over the tonal subtleties of this encounter--the faux intimacy, the clucking censure, the wet sympathy. Clinton and Walters might make beautiful music together, a harmony of ineffable falsenesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Confession Game: Assuming It's The Truth, | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

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