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...shall not go into the essence of his charges -- something in all this may have corresponded to the truth; something was a figment of his imagination, the result of overwrought suspicions. But that is what he really believed...
Though Noriega lawyer Steve Kollin confirmed that his client has had many messages faxed to Panama, he denied that any of them were even vaguely threatening and dismissed the allegations as "the figment of someone's imagination." Meanwhile, Carlos Lehder Rivas, the once powerful Colombian drug lord who is now in a U.S. federal prison in Marion, Ill., awaiting appeal on his life sentence for drug charges, has written to Noriega. He advised his fellow prisoner to confess all and save himself the trouble and expense of a trial. That's advice Noriega is likely to ignore as long...
...charge that the party is discriminating against Soto because of his background, many Republicans say, is absurd. "It's a figment of his imagination," says Rep. Kevin Poirier, (R-N. Attleboro), a Nuzzo supporter, He's putting both feet in his mouth, and he's the one causing his own problems. It's not remotely involved with his ethnic background...
...numbers verify that house stereotypes are not just a figment of administrative imagination. They show a strong correlation between the house in which students live and their grade point average and honors graduation...
...humor that ultimately dominates weakest moments occur when the characters are forced to face the logical ramifications of their illogical world. Had DeLillo taken his own contrivances less seriously, the audience would be spared monologues on such silly questions as: what if the world is just a figment of one's imagination? It is a child's question, as DeLillo admits; but then, so are the answers...