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...phone calls and dorm keycard all suggesting he could not have been present when the rape is supposed to have occurred. Osborn and the other defense lawyers have raised enough challenges to Nifong's case to invite people who do not often find themselves identifying with those charged with vicious crimes to walk in their shoes, imagine what it might be like to stand accused, publicly condemned and then slowly, slowly, try to crawl back toward a life that will never be the same...
...even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. “The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing...
...Technically, the Tigers did not invent modern suicide bombing - the first such attack was against the American embassy in Beirut in 1983. They did however turn it into a vicious art form. Tigers adapted explosives so that they could be used on land, sea and air - thanks to the purchase of what Sri Lankan intelligence services say is a small squadron of microlight aircraft. Bombs were disguised to fit around, and even inside, the body. Among Tiger victims: a president, the head of the Sri Lankan air force, a minister of national security, an opposition leader and a former prime...
...whose aristocratic background is brought under the scrutiny of the revolutionary Mr. and Mrs. Defarge (Joshua C. Phillips ’07 and Alison H. Rich ’09). As punishment, his tresses are condemned to meet with the “National Razor” of a vicious and snipper-happy barber, Mr. Guillotine (Burkle). The show is often thrown together at the last minute by a highly skilled group of actors, Burkle says. “We don’t want it to cook too long. It’s about relying on the instincts...
...Over the past three years, the conflict in Darfur has displaced more than 2 million people and killed tens of thousands - perhaps more than 200,000. But in the past year the fighting, which originally pitted black African tribesmen against Sudan's government in Khartoum and its vicious Janjaweed militia proxies, has metastasized...