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...forbid if she's dead and they find evidence on her body that creates an association with Condit, then he's got to explain that. Even that is not absolute proof, but it's suspicious. Part of forensic science is interpreting the evidence, and you can interpret in different ways. Not only do you have to reconstruct the events leading up to the crime, but after you do the analysis you've got to interpret...
First, the Clinton Administration's rules that Bush has suspended while he searches for a compromise are themselves a compromise. They forbid federally funded researchers to destroy human embryos, but they allow the use of stem cells from embryos destroyed by others. What Bush wants is a compromise of a compromise...
That Roach, who repaid the money she pilfered, escaped prison seemed unfair to some, given that federal guidelines forbid such clemencies in crimes committed by people under the influence of alcohol and drugs. And how many denizens of our consumer culture can now claim in court that they stole because they couldn't help themselves? "Hundreds, if not thousands," prosecutor Joel Levin argued in court...
...longing to return to the activism of the Vietnam era, Lee says "God forbid" there be another such war. But, he adds, "if it were to happen, I would be right there...
...time-only performance. Instead, he gave a safe, caretaker performance that was hardly a performance at all. True, his funniest jokes were laced with a measure of contempt for the industry (on the awards' use of the phrase, "The Oscar goes to..." rather than "The winner is...": "God forbid anybody should think of this as a competition. It might make the trade ads seem crass"). But Martin is thoroughly L.A. at heart, and he kept the crowd safely on his side with liberal name-dropping and use of the pronoun "we." He probably didn't guarantee himself an invite back...