Lawyers for a man who could face the death penalty for the 1998 bombing of the American Embassy in Tanzania yesterday offered the jury an alternative: they introduced testimony about one of the United States' most secure prisons, the so-called Super Max, in Florence, Colo.
For four decades, the freetown of Christiania has existed as a testimony to an alternative way of life, where hash was sold openly and squatters' shacks jostled comfortably with architect-designed eco-sheds.
Though Mr Putin was an authoritarian, he seemed "democratic" to them.The ease with which Mr Putin eliminated all alternative sources of power was a testimony not to his strength but to Russia's institutional weakness.
Instead, as my testimony notes, a superior alternative would be to make narrow changes in surveillance laws to address the cybersecurity data sharing issue without carving unnecessary holes in existing privacy protections.
But with sceptical Republicans struggling to persuade enough Democrats to join them in overriding a presidential veto, Kerry painted a bleak picture of the alternative options during four hours of heated testimony before the House foreign affairs committee on Tuesday.
FORT MEADE, Md .-- The military judge overseeing the trial of Bradley Manning ruled Tuesday that "there are no alternatives to closure" of the court during the testimony of 24 prosecution witnesses who will discuss classified information.
Chart 7 of Foster's testimony explains that what he terms the "alternative" projection is what he favors as most accurate.
That such a flawed and divisive politician has come to be seen as the shrewd elder statesman of the Republican presidential field is testimony only to the paucity of the alternatives.
By eliciting testimony that the activists had no reasonable legal alternative to prevent the catastrophic effects of climate change, the defense team is building a depressing but compelling argument against the efficacy of American democracy and government.
According to Amnesty International, "one of the two witnesses who has not recanted his testimony is Sylvester "Red" Coles -- the principle alternative suspect, according to the defence, against whom there is new evidence implicating him as the gunman.
