Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...major culprit in packing the catalog seems to be the Division of Medical Sciences, a listing of classes and Faculty for graduate students in the sciences. The committee, an associate group of the Medical School, offers no classes for undergraduates and takes up 51 pages in the 1996-97 Faculty of Arts and Sciences catalog. Ten full pages of that is solely devoted to listing their Faculty...
...arguments that attacked star prosecution witness Michael Fortier and the forensic evidence in the case. Christopher Tritico hit hard at the prosecutors' assertion that traces of the explosive PETN found on McVeigh linked him to the bombing, insisting that much more should have been there if McVeigh was the culprit. "The government didn't give you any PETN from McVeigh's car," Tritico said. "Why? Because there wasn't any. Where is the PETN on the door handle? Where is the PETN on the fingerprint card at the Noble County Courthouse?" "It seemed Tritico was getting through to the jury...
...media with propaganda. Today's director, Louis Freeh, is not a master cover-up artist like Hoover. For decades, FBI scientists have not been qualified as experts in their field. In 1989 Frederic Whitehurst blew the whistle on the FBI lab, and now he is viewed as the culprit. But in 1979 William C. Sullivan, former assistant director in charge of the domestic intelligence division, published a book that stated, "The FBI laboratory is in fact a real-life counterpart of the busy workroom of the Wizard of Oz--all illusion... No one at the lab they run in Washington...
...course not. I conjecture that there would be universal outrage throughout campus; the Administration would certainly issue formal statements and launch investigations to discover the culprit; and the Undergraduate Council, particularly its President, would speak out against the oppression of someone who is not like the rest...
...Christian radio talk show today, the aggrieved father said he would renounce his claim to the damages Simpson has been ordered to pay his family if the former football star issues a signed, detailed confession that he killed Ronald Goldman. Steering clear of directly naming Simpson as the culprit, Goldman said, "The suggestion is that if the person . . . that murdered my son wants to write out a complete confession and publish it in newspapers around the country, we'll be glad to ignore the judgment." Even if Simpson is guilty, Goldman does not really expect him to accept the challenge...