Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...burgundy Cadillac races along the Mississippi highway, droplets of rain stipple the windshield and storm clouds signal rougher weather ahead. Dr. Tom Tucker, a circuit-riding abortion doctor, is on his car phone with a clinic. "How's it look?" he asks. There's a problem: it seems a large, angry man is raising hell in the parking lot while 40 antiabortion protesters picket the clinic. "This," says Tucker, his right hand slowly sliding down to touch the 9-mm Glock pistol wedged beside his seat, "is where I start to feel the tingle...
Ironically, it's also the address to which Demjanjuk could soon return. This week, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Demjanjuk may return to the U.S. while his denaturalization is appealed...
Slowly but surely, however, the case against Demjanjuk unraveled. KGB records released in 1991 showed that Ivan the Terrible was likely a different man, Ivan Marcenko, who was last known to be living in the Ukraine in 1962. The evidence was compelling enough to prompt the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to open an investigation into possible prosecutorial misconduct by Ryan and other OSI lawyers...
...mishandled their prosecution of Demjanjuk concluded that there was "substantial doubt" he was Ivan the Terrible. Judge Thomas A. Wiseman Jr. criticized government lawyers for being insufficiently inquisitive about the facts of the case but said their failings fell short of misconduct. In his report to the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, Wiseman recommended that the extradition be upheld because even if Demjanjuk was not at Treblinka, evidence indicated he was an agent of the SS nonetheless...
...promote ourselves and our employers, to gratify our egos, and to make people want to hear more from us. (The lecture circuit, although sometimes ethically dubious, can generate fees ranging from $2,000 to $20,000 for a 45-minute speech.) Moreover, as R.W. Apple Jr., Washington bureau chief of the New York Times, rather delicately puts it, "doing television can improve your access" to official sources. The economics are sweet for TV producers as well. They know that print journalists work cheap, are well informed and are readily available to leap into the electronic maw. Adds John McLaughlin...