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The LAT reports that former President Jimmy Carter has been lobbying President Clinton to pardon Patty Hearst, the newspaper-magnate scion who in 1974 was famously kidnapped and "brainwashed" into robbing a bank with her captors (the "Symbionese Liberation Army").
My files are as full as any policy wonk's with scholarly studies demonstrating that using tax lures to attract jobs and taxpayers often ends up robbing not just Peter, but Paul as well.
In one go-round she's tripped and forced to hobble, which means she doesn't bump into the woman with the baby carriage, which means she doesn't arrive at her banker-father's office to catch the exchange between him and his pregnant lover, which means she doesn't stop her boyfriend from robbing a supermarket, which means ...
Joaquín Murrieta, whose name is also spelled Murieta and Murietta, roamed the back roads and hills of northern and southern California from Mount Shasta to the Mexican border in the mid-1850s, stealing horses and robbing Yankees and Chinese alike.
Critics protest the Teletubbies are corrupting PBS, addicting children to the idiot box, and robbing kids of what's left of their pre-consumer innocence.