Word: pleas
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...Harvard vocabulary. In this week's plea for our money, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles noted that "nearly 70 percent [of undergraduates] have some form of aid, such as loans and jobs." We at Dartboard have gotten used to saying we are concentrators (not majors), who eat in dining halls (not cafeterias). But discovering that we "receive aid" instead of "get paid" for our jobs is going a bit too far. The Financial Aid office helped not a whit in finding Dartboard's non-work study, term-time job making Xeroxes and running errands for $6.50 an hour...
...spare a thought for the heartfelt plea of Louis, 9, of New Hampshire, who knew the poll numbers were against him, but feared the worst: "I think we should not bomb Iraq. If we start a war we could possibly die. If we die, millions of innocent kids would not be parents. Many of my classmates want to bomb Iraq, while...
Making an adamant plea for an end to Puerto Rico's status as a common-wealth of the United States, Governor Pedro Rossello of Puerto Rico spoke last night before a packed audience at the ARCO Forum at the Institute of Politics...
...alleged to have offered Linda Tripp to guide Tripp's deposition testimony to lawyers for Paula Jones. Steve Smith, a longtime Clinton friend and adviser, is the former president of Madison Savings & Loan, the institution at the center of Whitewater. After being targeted by Starr, Smith entered a guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge of conspiring to divert government-backed loan proceeds. But he insists that lawyers on Starr's staff wrote out a prepared script for him to read before the grand jury. "It contained things I had told them time and time again were not true," he says...
...DAVID KACZYNSKI Ted, thanks to a plea bargain, gets to live. And David doesn't have to live with the guilt...