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Furthermore, Ryan claims, Demjanjuk has changed his alibi about his wartime whereabouts three times...
...Berowne actively engaged Dagliesh's help in locating the source of the letter and then resigned from public life--and later, apparently, from life in general? And, above all, why does every member of the Berowne family have an almost-too-airtight alibi on the night of the apparent suicide...
...America. In each of them, Journalist Linda Wolfe sounds a persistent theme: warning signals usually precede "unpredictable" criminal acts. Her accounts are too brief for a true understanding of minds gone wrong, but she makes even the most absurd act -- and its subsequent explanation -- seem plausible. A carefully polished alibi is undone by an overlooked credit-card receipt. A medical researcher disappears, and the explanation lies in her $650 shopping spree at an A. & P. As Wolfe indicates, chance and coincidence were once the favorite devices of Victorian novelists; today they are the unseen weapons of policemen...
...ethical nightmare dreaded most by criminal-defense attorneys, and it occurs all too often. A client wants to take the stand with a good alibi, but his lawyer strongly suspects the story is a fabrication. Should the attorney look the other way and let the testimony go forward? Miami Lawyer Ellis Rubin answered no, and last week his response landed him in the Dade County jail...
When he began coaching the Grambling College football team 44 years ago, Eddie Robinson did everything, including filing the news story on the game with Western Union. He had a basic all-purpose alibi format always at the ready. Since then he has revamped the marching band, had a new 20,000-person stadium named in his honor, produced more than 200 future professional football players (among them Paul ("Tank") Younger, Willie Davis, Willie Brown) and not had to use many alibis. Last week Robinson, 66, reached his greatest milestone. After leading the Tigers to victory over Prairie View...