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Tucker, you may recall, was the rehabilitated axe murderess whose faith-based request for clemency Bush chose not to grant despite pleas from Pat Robertson (which paradoxically made him more eager to execute her--the better to distance himself from the religious right).
) The two topics that caught the most attention were Clinton's pleas for racial reconciliation and a crusade to raise educational standards.
Its icon of St. John is the focus of many pleas for help.
The whole damn film is a scant 80 minutes, and its second half features, among other things, Satan's soulful "Up There" number (please oh please let them do this at the Academy Awards), Saddam's pleas for sex, "Kyle's Mom Is a Bitch" with a multinational chorus, Kenny's trek through the underworld, Cartman's obscenity chip, the blaspheming French resistance fighter, and the staggeringly brilliant medley on the eve of Armageddon--not to mention Winona Ryder's best performance ever (courtesy of Minnie Driver).
The likely move is said to be in response to what the LAT calls a "drumbeat of pleas" from economists (and, it could be added, from columnists).