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...your mind." Yet his thoughts always wheel back to the central mystery that has brought him to this place. "The state says it's convenient for me to say I don't remember. But if it were convenient, I could have plea-bargained or made up some alibi. My girlfriend and one of my brothers say I was with them all that night. I wish I knew, even if it meant knowing that I'd done it. Who would want to live after committing such a terrible crime?" Since last fall, McCray has grown progressively more despondent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Death Penalty: I Can't Stop Crying, Doug McCray | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

...came into the spotlight as if out of a cave and was greeted by an Ali just his size. He rubbed his eyes. Later he rubbed his stomach. When Duran quit in the eighth round of the return match, a Leonard tour de force, nobody could believe either the alibi-the little wolf had wolfed down too much lunch-or the truth: an uncivilized man took a civilized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Everything I've Done Is Unique | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

...against the wall, and then used the jagged remnant to tear out Louise Pickering's throat? The police had charged Charles Day Terry, 17, who worked as a dishwasher at Pickering's restaurant and who had twice been confined to mental institutions. Terry claimed an unusual alibi: he had been buying marijuana in Annapolis on the night of the murder. He said he had been mugged in the process, and that was why there was blood on his shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We, the Jury, Find the . . . | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

...couple of Saturdays ago, after a Cabinet meeting, the President wandered over to the Alibi Club on I Street, a narrow and shadowy enclave of 50 of the city's powerbrokers. He went without the usual army of photographers. He did not hold court once he was inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Sense of Privacy | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...compromise Washington's neutral stance on the Persian Gulf war, thereby enraging Iraq and dismaying its pro-American supporters in the war with Iran -Saudi Arabia and Jordan. At worst, such a quid pro quo might be construed by Moscow as direct U.S. interference and thus provide an alibi for an expanded Soviet role in the conflict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSIAN GULF: The Hostage Drama | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

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