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...midlife. He could have issued a 30-day reprieve and signaled to the parole board that Tucker should be granted clemency. He didn't. Although he said he was anguished by the decision, in an interview in Talk magazine, writer Tucker Carlson described Bush mimicking the woman's final plea for her life. "'Please,' Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, 'don't kill...
...inspired to begin a local campaign after a healthy 8-lb. baby boy was left in a trash bag behind her family's church. Kelly found an old laundry basket, lined it with a warm blanket and put it on her front porch. Then she called reporters with a plea for young mothers to bring their babies to her. I'll take it from there, she promised. Nobody has taken up her offer yet, but still she waits. "It's a strange feeling when you lay your head on the pillow at night," she says. "Kind of spooky." With only...
...plea bargain by two key suspects in the Bank of New York money laundering scandal exposed last year could prove devastating to some Moscow movers and shakers. Reuters reported Wednesday that former Bank of New York official Lucy Edwards and her husband, Peter Berlin, owner of the company through whose accounts the illegally transferred billions were moved, pleaded guilty in New York to money laundering charges. "Presumably, the government is going to try and get them to cooperate and tell investigators how this money laundering scheme worked, what its mechanisms were," says TIME senior business writer Bernard Baumohl. "And obviously...
...guilty plea by Ms. Edwards also raises potential problems for her former employers at the Bank of New York, although these may not necessarily be of a legal nature. "When a senior bank official admits to such activity, the bank faces the danger of being stigmatized as an institution that has failed to properly scrutinize its employees," says Baumohl. "Still, it's likely to be more of an embarrassment than a legal problem...
...Alaska Airlines Flight 261 had a final, desperate plan to save the 88 lives on board. The plane seemed to be plummeting because a key mechanism had jammed in a position that was forcing its nose down. The crew radioed a company mechanic on the ground with an urgent plea: Were there any "hidden circuit breakers" that could cut off power to the horizontal stabilizer--the device they believed had taken deadly control of the plane? No, the mechanic replied, he didn't know of any. But as the plane temporarily stabilized, he signed off on an optimistic note...