Word: alibis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Until he was finally hit by the I.R.A. (to him, just more authority to affront), he was equally capable of cheekily parking on a police-station bench all night to give himself an alibi, or of crucifying a suspected informer on a pool table. Happily married, he kept his wife's sister as a mistress and sired children with both women. In this admittedly fictionalized retelling, his other reliable relationship is with an implacably pursuing detective (superbly underplayed by Jon Voight) who hates himself for succumbing to a psychopath's irresistible charm...
...Congressional District, made a point of not showing up last week when Clinton arrived at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. Instead, Lucas stumped for votes just across the Ohio River. "People wanted me to say I had a scheduling conflict, but I didn't want to make up an alibi," says Lucas, 65. "I made the decision not to see him the moment this mess came down...
...what about the evidence that indicates that Cousin was at a basketball game or on his way home with coach White around the time of the murder? "We investigated that alibi seriously," says Jordan. "We had witnesses telling us these games usually lasted 35 to 40 minutes. The defense was trying to make a 40-minute basketball game into an hour and a half." Of course, the key question is when the game started--and White and several other witnesses say it started around 9:30 p.m., leaving Cousin, if he was the killer, an improbably small amount of time...
Although there is no evidence in the investigative dossier to corroborate the man's alibi, the examination of his car apparently ruled out the possibility that it had collided with the Mercedes. Chemical analysis of his car's original white undercoat showed that the paint was different from the samples found on the Mercedes. The man's deposition and documents concerning his vehicle have been filed in a folder labeled "cleared of suspicion," an unusual classification according to sources knowledgeable about French investigative procedures. The man is free for now, but some sources familiar with the case say investigators...
...went to school for five years in Bratislava, two years to the elementary school, and then for three years to the "Real-Schule." During that period, I did not earn a single A--except in singing and in German. Of course I had an alibi. These were all Slovak schools, and I started to learn this language only at 10. Unfortunately, it is hard to invoke this excuse for mathematics, and I certainly did not distinguish myself in this subject, either...My grades were C's and an occasional...