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...question so vital settled so decisively. The gulf debate is the closest politics gets to a controlled experiment. Hypotheses were advanced, and 43 days later the results were in. In the scientific world, one side admits error at this point. Those who believe in Lamarck or cold fusion either recant or retire...
...innocent "because I'm the one who knows." At the December hearing, Harris admitted that he was alone and holding the gun when it went off. Mulder, who has since left the D.A.'s office, discounts the admission. Says he: "Before it's all said and done, he'll recant again." Still, prosecutors have not contested the December recommendation...
Anna's tragedy is that she could conceivably return to communist Prague, recant her politics, and become a star again, rather than remain in America and demean herself by jumping at understudy roles in silly, pretentious Broadway shows. As she tells her former acting professor, a Czech who has sold out his politics to regain his status, "My problem is I love America too much." He answers, "But America doesn't love you, and it never will." She replies, "But it leaves me alone...
...imagine this series of events: with enough bothering of the Administration about this very important issue, Bok and the others will have to listen to us. He will decide that he and the Corporation have not yet been thinking on moral grounds and will immediately recant previous policy and all other statements. We the students will now be able to sleep easier at night, and Bishop Tutu will thank us for our part in the struggle...
Judge Samuels' ruling appeared to follow Illinois legal precedent in cases where witnesses recant their testimony after a conviction. Such retractions are generally viewed with suspicion, and the convictions stand. Said Thomas Royce, a prominent Chicago criminal-defense lawyer: "Recanting testimony is not (in itself) sufficient to impeach a jury's verdict. It basically falls on deaf ears...