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...evidence against the defendant, Crawford. But because Crawford’s lawyer was not able to cross-examine the videotaped witness, they took the case to the Washington State Supreme Court. There they argued that the videotaped evidence violated Crawford’s right, under the Sixth Amendment, to confront witnesses against him, but the court ruled that the evidence was reliable...
...days on the seat of my permanently topless MG-TC,” Nabokov writes, referring to his classic roadster. “Father, when he happened upon the car parked on a nearby street, would meticulously record the page to which the book was opened, and confront me in the evening with my lamentable lack of progress...
...populated by lifelike androids and lizard-like aliens, refugees from another planet. (That section also features Cunningham's first-ever car chase.) What holds the disparate components of Specimen Days together is Cunningham's intense focus on New York City as a crucible in which we're forced to confront the radically foreign-even alien-realities of death, technology, urban life and each other. Whitman could embrace those realities-this is the guy who wrote, "I am large, I contain multitudes." The rest of us can only hope to eke out an uneasy daily truce with them...
...sorts of conclusions. One woman greeted her husband in a costume of nothing but Saran Wrap bound up with a red ribbon. Another wanted to greet her husband "a la gypsy with beads, bangles and bare skin," but when she went to the door, she was surprised to confront an "equally surprised water-meter reader." Marabel admits, moreover, that she herself "looked foolish and felt even more so" the first time she dressed up in "pink baby-doll pajamas and white boots after my bubble bath." -TIME, March...
...least, care as much about who they see as what they hear. "There are outrageous Aryan attitudes in a healthy minority of listeners," says John Rich. "It's K.K.K. b_______, and at some point, you just can't believe it's still out there. But you've got to confront...