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...Lockerbie trial's star witness, Libyan double agent Abdul Majid Giaka, was a good catch. "He wasn't just a one-time asset," says a U.S. intelligence official. "He was providing information to us on other matters." But to the Scottish judges in Camp Zeist, he was hopeless. "We are unable to accept Abdul Majid as a credible and reliable witness," they ruled. For his contradictory and unconvincing performance on the stand, they rejected Giaka's testimony linking the Libyan defendants to the bombing; as a direct result, one of the two accused, Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, walked free...
Whether the fight is futile, or hopeless, is ultimately beside the point. "We're losing the war on drugs," people like to say, often with a vaguely self-satisfied look in their eyes. Well, of course we are--we're losing it every day, in every town and city and street corner in America. We lose, and lose, and then we lose some more. But the war goes on. As it must, for the sake of our society--and of our souls...
...however A. His illustration includes one of the key “Wake Up the Grader” phrases—“It is absurd.” What force! What gall! What fun! “Ridiculous,” “hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable,” on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage...
...around Greenwich Village in the 1940s, struggling to break away from his imitative work. Then we see him achieve his breakthrough and watch his burgeoning celebrity do him in. There has never been a more antiheroic biopic than this one. Or a better portrait of the artist as a hopeless mess...
Doctors at Shifa had tried for an hour to save Wael, but it was hopeless. X rays of the boy's skull taken from the front show a perfectly circular entrance above the bridge of the nose. From the side, an X ray exposes an identical round shape resting against the back of the skull. The rubber bullet passed through the boy's forehead and brain. It smashed against the back of his skull, fracturing it, before coming to rest. At the morgue, Wael's X rays lie in a manila envelope, one of a pile, certifying the dead...