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...Gore, too, changed his speech at the lastminute in order to make a "special plea" to Perotsupporters...
...organization, even one so steeped in misdeeds and corruption as the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The new Constitutional Court in Moscow has decided to do its rethinking by combining two cases -- a challenge from former communists to President Boris Yeltsin's decree outlawing the party and a plea from the government to declare the former Soviet Communist Party unconstitutional...
...there is no difference between the parent talking to her child, the spokeswoman jousting with the press, the Palestinian arguing for the cause. She has a rare ability to translate her people's longings into homely domestic terms, to turn an abstract dissertation on rights into a mother's plea for her children. That is real; that is how she sees it. "I do it," she says flatly, "for my daughters...
...defendant agrees to enter a guilty plea, and the judge recites the required litany: "Do you decide to admit to this of your own free will? Do you have a mental disease? Are you under the influence of drugs, alcohol, or medication? Did anybody force you, threaten you, or give you something to make this statements...
...vividly availed himself of the chance to shed the crosslight of fiction (Thunderheart was made after Incident) on his own attempt to write history on film. Flaws and all, the movies constitute a directorial tour de force, as well as an intriguing study in cultural anthropology and a plea to social conscience that is difficult to ignore...