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Boyle's testimony cracked under Sprague's 88-minute crossexamination. Despite Boyle's frequent pleas of poor memory, the prosecutor repeatedly trapped him. He denied sending Turn-blazer a transcript of a U.M.W. meeting outlining a phony alibi for union officials linked with the murder. Sprague asked why FBI agents had found Boyle's fingerprints on the document. The courtroom stirred at the news, which Sprague had dramatically withheld until Boyle's testimony...
...have no alibi for losing," Rutledge said afterwards, as he gloomily watched the sabre finals. "I beat the dude, but the directors saw it the other way. That's why I'm up here [in the stands] and Sarikas is down there...
...Disgusted with his third place finish, LaCasse took the other coaches out for a night on the town. They had three Harvey Wallbangers each at Mr. Up's in Middlebury, then repaired to LaCasse's favorite bar in Burlington. After that, the finished up a few more at the Alibi in Middlebury. When all the racers returned to the gym they found LaCasse and his two compatriots sitting in the middle of all the sleeping bags and boots and pillows and way, babbling something fervently to themselves. "It was strange, but nobody could quite comprehend it," said Harvard coach Carter...
Getchell refused to alibi for the team's loss but he admitted "these games were masterpieces of mis-scheduling at 60 Boylston Street...
...horrors that God seems to visit alike upon those condemned to believe and those condemned to thirst after faith. "Free will was the excuse for everything," says Léon, the priest turned revolutionary, as he recalls his early training. "It was God's alibi. Evil was made by man or Satan. It was simple that way. But I couldn't believe in Satan. It was easier to believe that God was evil." Then, Léon offers an informal post-Freudian, post-Buchenwald process theology that assumes man can judge God's acts and know them...