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...keeps repeating itself all around the country. We have seen lapses like this again and again, most recently with the falsified laboratory tests that surfaced in Oklahoma just last week. Again and again, when we hold these death penalty issues up to scrutiny, we see there are mistakes, or slip-ups or carelessness that can make a huge difference in these trials...
...civil suit, "but criminal charges until now have been unheard of." She claims that investigators piled on the pressure, tapping her phones and impounding furniture from her modest one-bedroom apartment. While she was on vacation last autumn she popped up on a federal wanted list. Mezhennaya had to slip home furtively to avoid being picked up at the railway station. And once she reported to the investigators they obtained an order banning her from leaving the city...
...opener, Harvard allowed a 2-1 lead to slip away late in the game, making it necessary for the Crimson to sweep the next two games. Whitton started the game and performed well, striking out eight and allowing two earned runs...
...There were, of course, instances where a question would slip through the cracks. Maybe a new edition of the Cliffs Notes for "Hamlet" had passed under my mom?s radar. Maybe two pages of her "Henry V" notes got stuck together. Whatever the reason, there were occasional lapses; a quiz might allude to one of Shylock?s character traits - and one or two vigilant (and stubbornly optimistic) students might recognize the description from a passage in their Cliffs Notes. The odds of a slip-up weren?t good at all - but that may have made victory twice as sweet...
...with the wiring the university has done in the past decade, it can’t be that difficult to slip some fiber-optic wires in with the other cables already there...