Word: pleas
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Your 765-word plea for tuition help notes that your mother is handicapped and your father has three jobs. Do you worry your e-mail looks like a scam? I definitely see why people might think it's a scam. They can check it out; they can call NYU's financial-aid office if they want ... I was trying to make it seem as unscam-like as possible. Which is kind of difficult when you're asking for money...
This morning, to the relief of Detroiters and the Democratic Party, Kilpatrick went back on those words. "I lied under oath," he admitted in a Detroit courtroom before accepting a plea deal negotiated with Wayne County prosecutors. Under the agreement, the mayor will resign his office, plead guilty to two counts of criminal obstruction of justice, pay $1 million restitution and spend four months in jail. "I gave that up a long time ago," said Kilpatrick, who has long battled with the local media, when the judge asked if he understood that he was giving up the right...
...dragged into the mess when the Detroit city council asked her to hold public hearings to determine whether the mayor should be forced from office, a power the governor has under Michigan law. The hearings began yesterday, and their suspension in the wake of Kilpatrick's guilty plea now allows Obama to become the most visible Democrat in the state heading into the fall campaign. Obama will need the next two months to make up for what was already a late start in a state he skipped during the Democratic primary season. "We're introducing him to people...
...thing is, his plea is legit. And two weeks after Stephenson sent his e-mail to 300 of his friends and his parents' business contacts - and asked them to forward it to anyone they could think of - he says he has already received close to $6,000 from more than 2,000 people. Only a dozen or so e-mail recipients have written to him asking if he's a swindler. "Everybody's been really nice about it," he says. "As nice as I guess you can be to somebody you suspect to be scamming you. It hasn't been...
...Avuncular as ever, still smiling at his own jokes, Lieberman's 20-minute plea followed a folksy, flag-waving address by former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee. The big man with the muddy drawl, perhaps more famous for his "Law & Order" re-runs than for his legislative career, treated the delegates and guests to a populist paean to his pal McCain and his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska...