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...Lafayette will try to defend the pass." Harvard Coach Tim Murphy said. "And we're going to throw the ball...
...second chance in a setting whose evidentiary standards are not those of a courtroom. And even before that to the media, once again - CNN led Tuesday with a summary of the evidence Freeh will present. But given the furor following Lee's release, the FBI will no doubt defend itself on the grounds that it feels compelled to explain its behavior - in other words, it's not vindictively painting the scientist as shifty about his dealings with the agents and nuclear scientists of a rival nation after failing to convict him in court; it's simply justifying its behavior...
...victory in the first round, and they won't accept anything less. Nobody knows what the government will say, but it doesn't matter if Milosevic declares that he won the first round or if he orders a runoff election - either way, the opposition will call on people to defend their vote. All he has to decide now is whether to go quietly, or go the ugly way. The writing is on the wall - and it says, "He's finished...
...will be a Wen Ho Lee-esque spin on the case. Redmond's lawyers will be taking a basket of procedural complaints and charges of government sloppiness to a court much more suited to hearing them than the Supremes would be, and Justice will likely find itself forced to defend its tactics as well as the issues at stake. For Bill Gates, that's well worth another year in purgatory...
...hand, the hair-trigger modem, wired directly to the adrenal glands and needing only a finger twitch to hit SEND, encourages a certain violence of opinion--impulsiveness that hardens more quickly than before into dogmatism. Once you've sent it, you're committed to it; you've got to defend it. On almost any subject--gay scoutmasters, say, or capital punishment or abortion--Americans tend to accelerate at unnatural speeds toward absolutes and sort themselves into fierce tribes to defend the absolute they've chosen. It's a moral video game. The fact that the combat is virtual (no physical...