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...March, a Cambridge District Court judge rejected a plea agreement between Vaghar and the D.A. that would have allowed Vaghar to avoid jail time, saying the deal was too lenient and instead recommending a sentence with a minimum of 60 days of jail time...
...Angelopoulos' severe spectacle concentrates on the rest of humanity: the victims, the mourners. It synopsizes the tumultuous history of 20th century Greece into three hours and about 60 shots--long, elaborate, beautifully orchestrated scenes of massed marchers, New Year's revelers and grieving survivors. The film is a plea to keep alive those who perished in war by remembering them. Thanks to Angelopoulos' heroic and pristine artistry, that memory is indelible...
Those Harvard undergraduates from New Orleans contacted by The Crimson this week were all out of town for research and vacations, or they had heeded Mayor C. Ray Nagin's plea to evacuate, sparing themselves the looting, filth, and chaos that would eventually overtake the devastated city in the wake of the storm. Floodwaters have breached city levees, and Nagin has estimated that 80 percent of the city is underwater...
...billed in advance, but the Soviet audience may have reached 150 million. For them, it was a mild shock, certainly a rarity. The last time a U.S. President had come on, eyeball to lens, was in 1972, when Richard Nixon appeared. Reagan, the Great Communicator, made his plea "to try to reduce the suspicions and mistrust between us," then tried a little shaky Russian: "Let us look forward to a future of chistoye nyebo [clear sky] for all mankind...
...information on the Goldmark family, in the apartment where he was staying. Prosecutor William Downing said Rice seems to have attacked the Goldmarks in the belief that they were leaders in the American Communist Party. "That," said Downing, "is clearly a mistaken belief." Last week Rice entered a plea of innocent...