A plea arrived from Changshu, a Yangtze River delta city where developers sought to raze the villas of 800 relatively well-off homeowners, to make way for new villas.
No matter that Cuomo, with his past equivocations, was an unlikely prod, or that Gore's spokesman had repeatedly denied that the former Vice-President would run again; Cuomo's plea arrived on the eve of a speech that Gore had personally requested the opportunity to deliver, and after a week of growing concern among Democrats that the front-runner, Howard Dean, is unelectable.
Breaking-news alerts, like the news on Jan . 13of the Andrew Fastow Andrew Fastow guilty plea, arrive on the watch about as quickly as they would in your e-mail inbox or as a text message on a mobile phone.
The plea deal was arrived at in 2010, after the Administration decided to prosecute Khadr under the pasted-together military-tribunal system; with Canadian concurrence, he was supposed to be transferred after one more year at Guantánamo.
Vera herself was a brown cardboard box on the dresser, dangerously like the pile of mail left sitting beside it, the sales pitches and charity pleas that had arrived after her death.
He "furiously denied" any wrongdoing and maintained not guilty pleas as he arrived at Cardiff Crown Court to stand trial this week alongside two women, whose babies he abused.
Mr. Shurov's trial was to begin yesterday, but after a series of last-minute negotiations that led to the plea deal, Mr. Shurov arrived in the courtroom, stocky, crew-cut and handcuffed, just before 5 p.m.
We can imagine the consternation in the solid bourgeois drawing room when Stevenson's letters arrived bearing pleas such as "Take me as I am..
In the plea deal, however, Olenicoff, who arrived in the U.S. at 15 with his parents, and few possessions, admitted he's the owner of Olen Properties Corp. Forbes had concluded as much, estimating Olenicoff's net worth at $1.7 billion and ranking him 286th on our 2007 list of the 400 richest people in America.
Every day, as usual in this season of charity, pleas for money arrive in the mail.
Perhaps swayed by the pleas of his former teammate, Webber arrived at the Georgia Dome ahead of the game.
