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...Army's Hawaiian department, had a field day blaming each other and Washington for unpreparedness, but since all were culpable, there was no real art in the show. The same fandango is going on in Spain these days, with the generals on trial for treason frantic to pin last year's failed coup on each other. The buck may also be passed to superiors, as Nuremburg made clear. The first buck pass was Adam to Eve to snake, who, while superior to the unhappy couple, was unable to pass the buck elsewhere. Since the snake himself once worked...
...danger, though: it can become so complicated that the jury gets lost. That is often the only hope for defense attorneys, who can rarely afford to hire opposing experts. In cross-examination and final arguments, they hammer away at the witness's credentials or the inability to pin the crime on the defendant conclusively...
...Luke came right in the door," recalls Kevin Grevey, the other starting guard, "and in front of everyone, said, 'I've got a drug problem; I did too much cocaine last night.' You could hear a pin drop. 'Gene,' he turned to Gene Shue [the Bullets' head coach], 'help me. Kevin, help me.' He went around the room. 'Don, help me. Rick, please help me.' Nobody could say a word. We were stunned...
...much credit as they deserve," he insists. "I have the greatest respect for them." So much, infact, that this week he sent the band a thank you letter for its support at the Princeton game and at Sunday's loss to Penn. And he often wears a heart-shaped pin proclaiming. "I Love the Harvard Band...
...committee which controls an investment bank's loan policy may connect "racism" (having correctly identified the term on his Soc. Stud. generals) with loaning money to South Africa and veto such a policy. He will have changed things And he will have done so by putting on a pin striped suit and walking around Harvard Yard or spilling his guts on the Crimson's editorial page...