Word: alibiing
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...Netanyahu and others on the right may be tempted to seize on Sharon's offer of cease-fire talks as a sign of weakness or confusion, but Sharon has a cast-iron political alibi - his latest offer is precisely what the Bush administration has asked for. Washington had long urged Sharon to drop his "seven days of calm" requirement. And in Israeli politics, the express wishes of a pro-Israel White House remain a red line that's seldom crossed...
Married executives who travel a lot have ample opportunities to cheat on a spouse. But if they want to sneak off with a paramour and can't find a convention to attend, they can call an alibi agency. For a membership fee that is usually less than $100, plus $30 to $50 per lie, services like the Alibi Agency, based in Lytham St. Annes, England, will extend fictitious invitations to business conferences. It will receive your calls and patch them through from "the hotel front desk." The agency will even return, say, a necktie "forgotten at the conference." The alibi...
...Chateau Monte Cristo was haunted by many ghostwriters, and that its author signed his name to more books than anyone could ever write. ?Tis not expected of Pharaoh that he build with his own hands his own pyramids. But the mere blueprint of one Dumas plot is an airtight alibi for a whole career. Of all these, out of question the most gloriously complex, possibly the most impossible, a mathematical miracle, as perfect as watchworks and as big as Pittsburgh, among hundreds one Dumas plot persists as the most ingenious tall story ever perpetrated by the mind...
SENTENCED. JEFFREY ARCHER, 61, former deputy chairman of Britain's Tory party and best-selling novelist, to four years in prison; for perjury and obstruction of justice; in London. After asking friend Ted Francis to support a fake alibi to counter a newspaper's claim that he'd had an affair with a prostitute, Archer sued the Daily Star for libel and won. Justice Francis Potts called Archer's actions "the most serious offense of perjury I have experienced...
...technological prophet, as those who have seen the music video to his obscenely catchy single, It Wasn't Me, would know. The song is about a wannabe playa whose lady catches him, ahem, hangin' with the girl next door. Its name comes from the oaf's absurd, shameless alibi, and to hear the lyrics, you'd think this lady was just another Oprah-watching female American victim. But on screen, she's craftier than Lara Croft. She spies on her beau, narrow-eyed, everywhere he goes, using a little handheld device that looks suspiciously like the latest Nokia handset...