Word: frame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...laid eyes on the crime scene, Mark Fuhrman understood how it would play. "Look, it was dark, 3 a.m.," the former L.A.P.D. detective recalled at his internal-affairs hearing. "I was surrounded by 16 other cops who I knew would cover for me. It was the perfect opportunity to frame one of the most beloved public figures in America for murder. What would you have done...
What remains astonishing, of course, is that while 21 police employees in three departmental divisions were required to frame O.J., there was no security breach (although the J.F.K.-assassination conspiracy of 212 people from seven federal and state agencies remains the record to beat). This was especially remarkable given their diverse reasons for involvement. Of the 21 co-conspirators, five indicated they were motivated by racism, 13 were covering for fellow cops, and three said they were attracted to the purely technical challenge of framing a completely innocent man in full view of the world media...
...calls the Artist to his face by not calling him anything) to talk about his new album, his new contract, his new wife, his new child and all the newness in general that surrounds him lately. In person he seems more fragile than one might expect, with his thin frame and delicately eyelined eyes. When he speaks, his voice is deep and soft. "This record is very personal to me," he says about Emancipation, a 36-song, three-hour-long epic. "I got everything out of my system with it. When I wrote it, I was a free...
...devoted to the flag--but his devotion was esthetic, not patriotic. On the other, by treating its sacred form as mutable, he undermined it as a conventional symbol. And since he did so without any visible aggression or skepticism, you couldn't tell where he stood in the American frame...
...showed the letter to half a dozen a lawyers, all of whom were amazed, some even angered," said Afrasiabi, who will represent himself in the case. "One lawyer said he should frame it. Harvard has no right to do this...