Noam Shalit said his son pleads for his release and asked to be rescued in the letter.

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An old woman asks that he share his meager meal, or a beggar pleads for a coin.

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To meet the growing threat in Lebanon, Olmert pleads for more UN troops.

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While the prime minister has seemed panicky as he pleads for trust, the Conservative leader's lack of charisma has come to look like integrity.

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The letter pleads for measures to promote growth.

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During one of those notable confrontations, Tsotsi threatens to kill an equally helpless invalid in the course of a squalid holdup, but he's befuddled, once again, by the passion with which the man pleads for his life.

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Nurallah also pleads for justice.

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What Pollack neglected to mention in the 2006 article was that the same activists who had opposed and obstructed "agbiotech" relentlessly for 20 years were suddenly whining about the "hype" and "over-selling" of its benefits--rather like the teenager convicted of murdering his parents who pleads for mercy from the judge because he's an orphan.

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The tabloid Bild urges Britons not to turn their backs on the EU: "Dear Brits, please stay - after all, you're so beautifully crazy, " it pleads (using the English for "crazy") before launching into a paean to an eclectic list of "crazy" Britons that includes Prince Philip, Sacha Baron Cohen, Boris Johnson and the Loch Ness Monster.

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