Word: hearsay
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...conspirator. In her post, she mentioned that she had already completed the other two traditions and was trying to fulfill the trio before finishing her freshman year. She didn’t research the potential ramifications of her actions, but one of her internet responders gave her some hearsay advice. “Someone wrote me, saying one time he had asked a security guard what happens to people they catch and the policy is just to embarrass them and tell them to move on out,” Zapf-Belanger says. “The embarrassment is enough; they...
...democracies, we work hard to push the idea of justice--that roiling, unwieldy principle--through the architecture of courtrooms, where it can be shaped by rules of discovery, hearsay, visible accusers and cross-examination that have been built, through trials and lots of errors, over centuries. The adversarial process in the U.S. and other Western countries tends to be messy and unpredictable, combative and often emotional, which is why it is so effective at producing judgments that last. Let it all out--hold back nothing!--so there are no "what ifs" on judgment day. You had your day in court...
...Lane, who hasn't read NeW's constitution, bases her opinion on Hoff Sommer's lecture and campus rumor. "Someone told me that Lynn Cheney is a major contributor of theirs," she says. Such hearsay, however, is wrong. "I wish Lynn Cheney was a major contributor of NeW!" Agness muses...
...business before GSA." The Justice department cited this as evidence of obstruction and making false statements on Safavian's part when it indicted him last year. Safavian goes on trial May 22. Safavian's lawyer has said the Justice department, in releasing the e-mails, is inappropriately publishing hearsay documents ahead of the trial...
...taken seriously. He implied, for example, that I was part of a vast anti-Serb conspiracy that also included Harvard University, a number of human-rights groups and various media outlets. He spent a lot of time trying to prove that my story was nothing but irrelevant hearsay. I tried to describe what I had seen in Vukovar as simply and clearly as possible. It may have been the most important thing I will ever do. After my testimony was over I felt as if a great burden had been lifted. For me, the Balkan wars were finally over...