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...Republican presidential candidates to denounce Larry Craig's indiscretion in an airport men's room. "It's disgusting," Romney said of the man who used to be his Senate liaison. Senator John McCain, a Romney rival, echoed those sentiments, saying: "He should resign. My opinion is that when you plead guilty to a crime you shouldn't serve." Many of Craig's Republican colleagues in the Senate, meanwhile, are clamoring to get him to step down...
...Vick's dogs were not so lucky. On Aug. 20 he agreed to plead guilty to federal charges stemming from his involvement in the blood sport of dogfighting. There are additional allegations that he shot, hanged and electrocuted dogs that lost. He faces prison, the loss of millions and maybe even the end of his career...
...Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, not Vice President Dick Cheney, leaked the undercover identity of Valerie Plame. If Cheney was innocent the entire time, why did Libby have to lie to protect him? Could something even more damaging emerge upon further investigation? With a commuted sentence, Libby can plead the Fifth Amendment in future testimony. With a pardon, he could not. This whole affair smells. The Bush Administration has taken politics from the gutter into the sewers. Stephen H. Weentland, HOUSTON...
...Easy Commute," Richard Lacayo suggested that President George W. Bush commuted the sentence of I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, a member of the Bush inner circle, because Bush had nothing to lose [July 16]. But there could be a more sinister reason. With a commuted sentence, Libby can plead the Fifth Amendment in future testimony. This whole affair smells. The Bush Administration has taken politics from the gutter into the sewers...
...determine just what they are. One person's verdant grassland might be another's development site; where you see a mountain range, someone else might see a coal vein. Sorting out such matters can become impossible - especially when the debates take place across borders, as preservationists in one country plead with another not to burn a grassland or dam a river or tear down a thousand-year-old temple...