1.   Last November, after Mr Wahid denied a pardon request, the younger Suharto went into hiding.

2.   As for the case of the convicted rapist exonerated by modern science, attorney Schaffer sees a key difference from other pardon requests.

3.   But White, the top federal prosecutor in New York, said her office did not know of the pardon request.

4.   Clinton, who was barraged with pardon requests in recent weeks, left more than a thousand petitions pending for the new president.

5.   Cunningham said he had never handled a pardon request in the past.

6.   Dozens of lawyers work full time for him, reviewing and evaluating pardon requests.

7.   For a while, Katsav, long a Likud Party stalwart, has suggested that he would look favorably on a pardon request.

8.   For Clinton, the merits of individual pardon requests may also have been secondary to other interests.

9.   Former Clinton aides testified at the hearing that they had been overwhelmed by a rush of last-minute pardon requests.

10.   Holder has acknowledged speaking by phone to Quinn about the pardon request.