Word: alibis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cold war era the U.S. can shed its arduous international responsibilities by transferring them to the U.N. or sundry other multilateral constructions. The subordination of America to the will of "the allies," or the U.N. Secretary-General, or the even vaguer notion of the "international community" provides a convenient alibi for failure. But it is also a near guarantee of failure and a source of endless, needless humbling of the planet's sole remaining superpower...
American Jews tended to ignore, or even alibi, black anti-Semitism because they had long been conditioned to hearing violent and plainspoken hate talk about themselves from the extremist right, and for years had trouble discerning the very same noises coming from those whom they took, mistakenly, to be liberals like themselves. Members of the organized Jewish community also have an enormous investment in their relations with the black community, having for so long a time been the most visible and generous nonblack allies of the civil rights movement...
...feel really observant as you confront the characters with their deeds. The production takes care of every detail to ensure your satisfaction and allay any doubts: at one point, a member of the audience is summoned to the stage to place a phone call to verify Mrs. Shubert's alibi. After running for ten years, no accusation is new, and an answer to every possible question has been carefully prepared...
...Gillooly's attorney Ronald Hoevet publicly elaborated on his client's guilty plea. Hoevet charged Harding with obtaining both the name of the Tony Kent Arena and Kerrigan's hotel-room number in Detroit and of participating in a Jan. 10 meeting between Gillooly and Eckardt at which an alibi was concocted. He said he had "no doubt" about Harding's guilt and suggested that it would be "unconscionable" for Harding to skate at the Olympics. The next day the state bar was flooded with calls questioning whether Hoevet had violated Oregon's code of professional conduct, which states...
...interrogation, - the affidavit says, Eckardt recalled Gillooly's telling him that Harding had assisted in setting up the attack by placing two phone calls from her Oregon home to the Tony Kent Arena to determine Kerrigan's practice schedule. Gillooly, said Eckardt, also spoke of Harding's constructing an alibi for the calls. At no point in the affidavit does Eckardt mention ever discussing the plan directly with Harding. But the same day that the affidavit was released, Eckardt, no longer under oath, offered the Portland Oregonian a story far more damaging to Harding. As Stant stalked Kerrigan...