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...idea because I wanted to inquire why cannibal metaphors are so prevalent in contemporary society," Huggan explains. "And also I wanted to examine the status of cannibalism as cultural myth which has been used in the past to justify imperial conquest and more recently has been used as an alibi for the success of modern consumer society...
...interview with John Signor about his article progressed positively enough. He provided a list of his subscribers, including the 30 who live in Arizona. He shared what he knew about the tracks outside Phoenix. He remained polite when, almost as an afterthought, the agent asked if he had an alibi for early Monday morning. (He does.) But looming over the conversation was a fact Signor did not have to mention to the agent, since it is clearly stated in his article on the derailment of 1939. No culprit was ever found...
IMAGINE THAT O.J. SIMPSON HAD A HISTORY OF BEATING THE BEJESUS OUT of Robert Kardashian and that one day Kardashian was found brutally murdered at his home. Simpson had no alibi, other than he was chipping golf balls in the dark. And there were tapes, pictures and police reports to show that Simpson had broken down Kardashian's door, smashed his windshield with a bat, threatened him with a gun and beaten him until his lip split open. How likely is it that juror Brenda Moran would have called looking at this evidence "a waste of time," or that Johnnie...
...boss. During the call, he says, he saw a black person about six feet tall enter the house--after which O.J. answered the intercom to say he had been sleeping. That contradicts the defense contention that O.J. had been hitting golf balls in his yard around that time--an alibi no witness ever confirmed...
...course, know nothing about his lifelong friendship with the defendants, and Michael does not tell them he plans intentionally to lose the case. Which he does, with the crucial help of a Roman Catholic priest from the old neighborhood, who perjures himself on the witness stand and provides an alibi for Tommy and John on the night of the murder...