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Jackson's lead attorney is a big name from Los Angeles, Thomas Mesereau. His sharp cross- examination at times irritated the judge but often landed. He got the accuser's sister to backtrack on key testimony, and turned another witness, former Jackson crisis-control expert Ann Marie Kite, into a voice for the defense...
What caused the Sinclair Broadcast Group, whose top executives have been large contributors to President George W. Bush and the Republican Party, to seemingly backtrack on plans to air a documentary attacking Senator John Kerry? Stolen Honor, in which some Vietnam veterans assail Kerry's antiwar activism, had reportedly been scheduled to air on 62 Sinclair affiliates. Instead, on 40 affiliates Sinclair aired A POW Story on Friday, a "news special" that drew on portions of Stolen Honor but also delved into the way politics and the media influence one another. Sinclair denies any about-face, saying that the company...
After criticism from the Democrats, the president was forced to backtrack, restating his earlier opinion that the US will win the war on terror. Instead of alarming many for its implicit agenda, the phrase has forcefully asserted itself to become part of our normal way of reading the world. Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry protest that Bush will never win the war on terror with his current policies, or that Kerry would be better in the war on terror. Yet the President must have already won something, if his “war?...
...Ahab-like obsession with preventing gays and lesbians from marrying. Gov. W. Mitt Romney sought an emergency stay on the Supreme Judicial Court’s ruling to avoid the day of reckoning that came on May 17. He also joined others in a push for the court to backtrack in favor of civil unions, in which same-sex couples would receive all the benefits of straight marriage without the name of “marriage”—a bizarre semantic gambit which, though better than no rights for gays and lesbians, would certainly not conform...
...taxes or popular services. His rationale? He had supposedly uncovered $2 billion of wasteful spending in the state budget. This would have been quite a notable accomplishment—if it were true. Unfortunately for Bay Staters, the claim was false. After facing media scrutiny, Romney was forced to backtrack...