Word: accidentally
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The way Ashong's life has unfolded so far, it seems like it just might. Unexpectedly, of course, haphazardly, and at the last minute, in true Ashong style. Getting the role in "Amistad" seemed less destiny than accident, a series of circumstances that collapsed into place.
Two other people close to McVeigh testified for the prosecution. One was Lori Fortier, Michael's wife, who described how McVeigh used soup cans to illustrate how he would arrange the barrels of explosives in the truck. She also testified that she helped make a false driver's license for...
"What's the objection?" Matsch growled, when prosecutor Joseph Hartzler raised one amid the Oklahoma-bombing proceedings. At mid-sentence, Matsch cut him off: "There is no basis in that! Overruled!" Hartzler offered no challenge. Says Bob Miller, a Denver lawyer: "He doesn't allow the government to wear the...
Bill Clinton likes to point out that Russian missiles are no longer aimed at targets in the U.S. It is true that both sides agreed in 1994 to switch the missiles away from their cold war assignments, but it isn't true that this step moved the world a safe...
He says he'd give the Web a B-plus, even an A-minus, that on balance it is a force for good. Yet an "accident of fate" has compromised its goodness. And that accident is intertwined with--perhaps, perversely, even caused by--his decision back in 1992 to take...