Word: proving
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...father's M-1 rifle in his apartment and asked a judge to commit him. But Williamson convinced the judge that he would be fine if he could return to classes. He continued, though, to be haunted by voices, and stalked the campus with a video camera, trying to prove that people were manipulating him with psychic messages. "It occurred to me that I was losing my mind, but it was only a fleeting thought," Williamson recalls. "I thought the whole mental-illness line of thought was just a trick designed to mislead and oppress...
What's taking this murder investigation so long? Apparently, Boulder district attorney ALEX HUNTER is going to great lengths to rule out all other suspects on the theory that by proving everyone else innocent, he can close down paths the defense lawyers for JOHN and PATSY RAMSEY might travel. Says a source within the investigation: "Anytime the Ramseys name a suspect or a piece of evidence that they think could prove someone else committed this crime, we have to check it out. If we can eliminate it, then that helps prove that an intruder didn't commit this crime." Hunter...
...have been able to get China into the World Trade Organization, but during his visit to the U.S., Premier Zhu Rongji got a chance to work on his comedy routine. As his best lines prove, he's not quite ready for prime time...
...everyone else has scheduled their lives two weeks in advance. Fear not a lack of funds! We've made a special effort to include free events. And this listings spirit has even spread to the rest of the magazine, in which former ed TJ resurfaces from senior spring to prove just how far you can go---not to mention how much you can do---with...
...they asked me. "It's free." My sister once told me that such distributors have to stand on the street until they're rid of their merchandise, so I took a free bible. "See," one man said to the other. "People want them." And, in fact, this bible could prove useful. An index on pages five and six instructs searchers "WHERE TO FIND HELP, When," among other mishaps, "Friends Fail," "Lonely" or "Trouble, In." But the men were gone by four o'clock, and I don't know when they'll be back to offer texts of wisdom to everyone...