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...super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty today to three felony counts of conspiracy, fraud and tax evasion, sending another tremor through Washington as expectations mount that the man who had access to many of the most powerful members of Congress could take some of them down with him. The plea agreement lays out in tantalizingly oblique strokes the way Abramoff raised millions of dollars on the sly from Indian tribal clients and then bought influence on Capitol Hill through lavish gifts of money, travel and entertainment. "Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this...
Enron's former chief accountant, Richard Causey, pleaded guilty to securities fraud last week. Causey will probably testify against ex-bosses Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. Here's what the plea could mean for their trial, set to start...
...North Korea Nukes Self in Desperate Plea For Attention." --One of the top 10 fake news stories in 2005 from THE ONION...
...power of nonviolence on the economic problem," he urged, even though nothing in the Constitution promised a roof or a meal. "I say all of these things because I want us to know the hardness of the task," King concluded, breaking off with his most basic plea: "We must not be intimidated by those who are laughing at nonviolence...
...that it is not easy to kill anyone, even your enemies, up close and personal, that such acts inevitably involve the infliction of collateral damage, not to mention the equally inevitable loss of one's own colleagues. The director has called his film "a prayer for peace," an implicit plea for a negotiated settlement to the Israel-Palestine war. He doesn't think any movie can accomplish that, but Munich is a thoughtful, intricate, handsomely made, potentially popular step in the right-the only possible-direction. (Click for TIME's Cover...