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Prosecutor Jonathan Benedict extracted reluctant testimony from Skakel's sister and played a tape Skakel made in the mid-'90s, when he was working on his autobiography. Both cast doubt on Skakel's alibi but without demolishing it. Classmates from a private school Skakel attended in Maine--really a glorified rehab clinic where Skakel was sent after a drunken-driving arrest--said he talked about the murder. The accounts ranged from helpless uncertainty--he was drunk, he blacked out, he couldn't remember what had happened--to dumb arrogance: "I'm gonna get away with murder. I'm a Kennedy...
...streets. How anyone could have differentiated this from what Tehran normally looks like, I'm not sure, but apparently there were especially powerful American-flag flames. But I'm glad they beat us, since we wouldn't have enjoyed it if we had won. We don't throw ticker-tape parades for beating Iran at stuff, because if we did, we'd be short on ticker tape. The only thing we could possibly lose to Iran at besides soccer is subjugating women. Now that Russia isn't important, there's no one for us to get juiced about. The Taliban...
...unlike Pearl?s family, made her own choice. But Pearl?s murder too was an assassination, aimed at his country and his ethnicity. And the video is not simply raw footage of violence - the beheading scene is only a couple of seconds long - but a produced propaganda tape. Intercut with Pearl?s statement are war scenes from the Palestinian territories: an injured baby, Israeli soldiers. Using Muslim grievances to justify slaughtering a Jewish civilian should be insulting to all those whom the terrorists want to co-opt. But it evidently is not, given the terrorists? continuing ability to win recruits...
...contrast, Harvard’s committee decided that tape recording should be prohibited because it gives the process a more judicial feel, where the tape recorded testimony could be used against the accused student in a future criminal trial...
...FOX.com's Tale of the Tape and wallpaper of these soon-to-be classic matchups...