Word: proving
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Difficult as resettling the returnees may prove, the thorniest problem Rwanda faces will be how to address the demands for justice. Some 83,000 genocide suspects already pack standing-room-only prisons--and to date not a single one has been tried. As refugees arrive home, thousands more will be denounced as suspected murderers. For the moment, say government officials, only the most notorious will be arrested. As for the rest, investigators will be under orders to move as slowly as possible so as not to cause panic; in this tightly knit society the slaughter was so intimate--neighbors killing...
...announced only last week, is important for a couple of reasons. First, the manufacture of stone tools is considered a key characteristic of the Homo line--something, along with brain size, skull shape and other anatomical features, that separates humans from less-than-humans. That has never been proved, though: the oldest known stone tools date back perhaps 2.5 million years, but they were found without any fossils around and could have belonged to anyone. And the oldest Homo fossils with universally accepted dates--until now, that is--date back only 1.9 million years. But the new find suggests that...
Every time one thinks the country has wearied of O.J., evidence arises to prove that plenty of people still find the subject compelling. Books about the case keep climbing best-seller lists; erstwhile O.J. friends still give prime-time interviews to the likes of Barbara Walters; dozens of cameras greet the parade of witnesses who have been entering the courtroom since the civil trial began on Oct. 23. And last week, with Simpson on the stand, the tangled tale was back on the front pages, back on Nightline and Larry King Live, back as a staple of our dinner-table...
...rake his nails across defense lawyer Robert Baker's skin to demonstrate. "We're not going to have any gouging of flesh out in my courtroom," Judge Fujisaki said.) Even without that dramatic flare-up, the cuts--or rather the assorted stories he has told about them--may prove problematic for the defense. Simpson testified at his January deposition that he cut his left pinkie as he rushed around getting ready to leave for Chicago the night of the murders. "I bleed all the time," he told police when he was interrogated after the murders. He also said...
...angry with the media, but it is entirely possible that if it had not been for the media's interest in his story, a frustrated FBI, unable to find any other suspects, would have referred his case to the U.S. Attorney. Jewell could have been indicted and compelled to prove his innocence in court...