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...legislature, not made up by courts," Kevorkian said in Michigan, thus pushing button No. 1, distrust of the legal system. Since a large body of common law evolved in court, this is tantamount to throwing out half the book before the show even begins. Button No. 2 and the clincher at the Michigan trial was a simple video of Kevorkian's latest subjects begging to be allowed to die. Just reading their words into the record might not have done the trick, and screams of pain could have been counterproductive. But the sight and sound of two Americans requesting autonomy...
Late in the third, Higdon sealed the victory with a shorthanded goal to put the team up by a final score of 8-4. He also scored once on Saturday and twice on Friday, including the game-clincher in that...
...dilemmas: Where to get that late-night low-fat fro-yo on the eve of that big mid-term in po-mo fopo? Where to go when you crave that cool Seattle style but don't want to walk the two blocks to Starbucks? Or--and this is the clincher--where to find a nice friendly place in otherwise unfriendly Cambridge to relax and share some good times with other friendly Harvard students? Welcome to SUNY Cambridge...
...best weapon in the budget war. And so, with eyes downcast and voice resolute, he recalled his own childhood as an Army brat, remembering what it was like to live in a family that always seemed to be stretching toward its next paycheck. And then came the clincher: ''It is morally wrong and indefensible not to pay federal workers. I don't care what the rest of you think; I am going to get something on the floor in the next couple of days.'' By late the next evening, the U.S. government was back in business, and the Speaker...
...established a plausible 76 minutes during which Simpson could have driven the two miles to Nicole's condominium, killed and returned; bumped into Kaelin's wall while re-entering his property via a service path; and been spotted by Park as he crossed back to the main house. The clincher in the scenario was an especially dramatic piece of evidence: a bloody glove found on the service path -- the apparent mate to one dropped near the bodies...