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...first case since being elected four years ago, is scrambling to salvage the remainder of his case after witnesses gave conflicting accounts about the stabbing deaths of two men last Super Bowl Sunday in Atlanta. The state's key witness, DUANE FASSETT, had driven the alleged getaway car. Pale and hyperventilating on the stand, he backed off earlier claims that he saw Lewis throw a punch and overheard co-defendants REGINALD OAKLEY and JOSEPH SWEETING admit to stabbing someone. The flip-flop testimony raised questions about whether cops rushed judgments and overlooked evidence. Prosecutors are trying the patience of Judge...
...Just not cricket" is shorthand throughout the former British Empire for behavior that, while not quite criminal, is beyond the pale of social acceptability. To Americans it may be a quaint but unfathomable game of bat and ball that can last up to five days, replete with daily breaks for luncheon and tea, without producing a result; but for the British and their erstwhile subjects cricket is more than just sport - it is a cultural ritual that encapsulates the Kiplingesque virtues of fair play, decency, subordinating one's ego to the greater good, fighting hard but fair for victory...
Taking his suggestion, I return to the memorial at dusk and wait to see the lights in the bases of the chairs. The lights are on all the time, but one cannot see them in the day, when the bases seem to absorb the pale green color of the lawn, like Coke-bottle glass. Some 50 people walk down one path and up the other in a casual ceremony. Many more were here at midday when I was with Jeanine. It is estimated that the memorial may attract as many as 1 million people a year, from all over...
Tonight I will walk to the center of the Radcliffe Quad at midnight. I will try to ignore the pale faces illuminated by monitors in the surrounding dorm room windows. I will lay on my back and I will look up at something very big, very far away...